TIRANA, June 15 /ATA/ – Retail sales in Albania rose 5.2% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022, data from the National Institute of Statistics, INSTAT, showed on Wednesday.
According to INSTAT, Albanians spent more on food and less on fuel during the first three months of this year.
The volume of retail sales, excluding the retail fuel and oil sale, increased 5.5% compared to the same period of the previous year, INSTAT said.
In the group of “Food, beverages and tobacco in both specialized and non specialized stores”, the turnover volume increased 4.7 %, compared with the same quarter of 2021.
Turnover volume, for the group of “Non-food products in specialized and non specialized stores”, in the first quarter 2022 increased 6.2 %, compared with the same quarter of the previous year.
The group “Motor fuel retail sales in specialized stores”, turnover volume increased 4.2 %, compared with the same quarter of the previous year.
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