Turnover in retail trade, October 2023

Retail trade turnover again up

In October, volume turnover in retail trade grew for the second time in a row at the monthly and decreased at the annual level. In trade and repair of motor vehicles, on the other hand, it decreased in monthly and grew in year-on-year comparison.

  • 28 November 2023 at 10:30
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  • provisional data
Up for the second consecutive month

Volume turnover in retail trade at the monthly level grew for the second time in a row, this time by 0.3%. In retail trade with non-food products it went up by 2.9%, while in retail trade with food products and in retail trade with automotive fuel it declined by 2.2% and 6.3%, respectively.

At the annual level, volume turnover declined by 15.6%, mostly as a result of the lower turnover in retail trade with automotive fuel (by 34.6%), since in retail trade without automotive fuel it declined by 0.1%. In retail trade with food products it went down by 1.5% and in retail trade with non-food products up by 0.1%.

In the first ten months of the year, volume turnover declined by 11.3% over the same period of the previous year. In retail trade with automotive fuel it was lower by 20.7%, in retail trade with non-food products by 5.3% and in retail trade with food products by 3.4%.

Turnover from trade and repair of motor vehicles down

Volume turnover from trade and repair of motor vehicles declined by 0.6% at the monthly and grew by 15.5% at the annual level. It also grew in the first ten months of the year, compared to the same period of last year, namely by 14.7%.

The table with the latest data is available in the SiStat Database.
Volume indices of retail trade turnover, Slovenia
Volume indices of retail trade turnover, Slovenia
1) In the trend-cycle component the most recent data are unreliable (the end-point problem).
Volume turnover in retail trade, Slovenia
Oct 2023
Sep 2023
Oct 2023
Oct 2022
Jan−Oct 2023
Jan−Oct 2022
% change
Total retail trade0.3-15.6-11.3
  Total retail trade except automotive fuel2.1-0.1-4.5
     food, beverages, tobacco-2.2-1.5-3.4
     non-food (except automotive fuel)2.90.1-5.3
  Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores-6.3-34.6-20.7
Volume turnover in wholesale, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, Slovenia
Oct 2023
Sep 2023
Oct 2023
Oct 2022
Jan−Oct 2023
Jan−Oct 2022
% change
Wholesale, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles-0.615.514.7
METHODOLOGICAL NOTE
Data are seasonally adjusted.

Data for the last 10 months are provisional. With each release the data for this period can be corrected and supplemented with new data.

Additional explanations are available in the methodological explanations.
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