Dutch retail turnover up 5.5% YoY in Jul 2022, sales volume down 1.5%

If the shopping-day pattern is not taken into account, retail turnover in July this year was 3.2 per cent higher than in the same month last year.

Shops selling personal care products, clothes, footwear and leather products and recreational goods saw turnover growth. However, shops selling consumer electronics, white goods, furniture, home furnishings and do-it-yourself products, kitchens and flooring had lower turnover than twelve months previously.

Web shops recorded a turnover decrease of 0.7 per cent.  Multi-channel retailers achieved 12.9 per cent higher turnover in online sales.

Online turnover of clothing and fashion items, of food and personal care products and of other non-food products was higher in July compared to July 2021, CBS added.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (DS)