29 September 2017
2017- n° 264In August 2017, the turnover fell back sharply in large-scale food retailing (−1.7%) Turnover in large-scale food retailing - August 2017
In August 2017, the turnover in large-scale food retailing fell back sharply (−1.7% after +0.3%). The sales decreased in food products (−2.0%) after a near stability in July. They also shrank in non-food products (−2.3% after +1.2%). However, sales of automotive fuel rose (+1.3%).
In August, sales declined in hypermarkets (−1.7%) as well as supermarkets (−1.3%).
In August 2017, the turnover in large-scale food retailing fell back sharply (−1.7% after +0.3%). The sales decreased in food products (−2.0%) after a near stability in July. They also shrank in non-food products (−2.3% after +1.2%). However, sales of automotive fuel rose (+1.3%).
In August, sales declined in hypermarkets (−1.7%) as well as supermarkets (−1.3%).
Fall over the last three months
Over the last three months, the turnover in large-scale food retailing decreased (−0.6%) compared to the previous three months. Over that period, sales went down in food products (−0.5%). They were almost unchanged in non-food products. They slumped in automative fuel (−5.2%). Sales declined more markedly in supermarkets (−1.4%) than in hypermarkets (−0.6%).
Growth of 0.9% over a year
The turnover of the past three months in large-scale food retailing rose by 0.9% compared to the same period a year earlier. Sales grew moderately in non-food products (+0.6%) whereas they decreased in food products (−0.9%). Sales of automotive fuel surged (+5.9%), boosted by the upturn in fuel prices. Year on year, sales increased markedly in supermarkets (+1.2%). They were virtually stable in hypermarkets.
graphiqueGraph1 – Turnover in large-scale food retailing by type of retail stores
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retail activities (Emagsa)
graphiqueGraph2 – Turnover in super. and hypermarkets by type of products
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retail activities (Emagsa)
graphiqueGraph3 – Turnover in supermarkets by type of products
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retail activities (Emagsa)
graphiqueGraph4 – Turnover in hypermarkets by type of products
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retail activities (Emagsa)
tableauTable1 – Turnover in large-scale food retailing
| Variation en % | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kind of stores or kind of products | August/July | July/June | June/May | q-o-q (1) | y-o-y (2) |
| Turnover (*) | –1.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | –0.6 | 0.9 |
| including | |||||
| Sales of food products(**) | –2.0 | –0.1 | 0.6 | –0.5 | –0.9 |
| Sales of non-food products(**) | –2.3 | 1.2 | –0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| Sales of automotive fuel(**) | 1.3 | 0.1 | –4.9 | –5.2 | 5.9 |
| including | |||||
| Supermarkets(***) | –1.3 | –0.6 | 0.1 | –1.4 | 1.2 |
| Hypermarkets(***) | –1.7 | 0.4 | –0.1 | –0.6 | 0.1 |
- (1) Quarter-on-quarter: last three months / previous three months (2) Year-on-year: last three months / same three months of previous year
- (*): including sales not in stores
- (**): sold in supermarkets or hypermarkets
- (***): excluding sales not in stores
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retailing activities (Emagsa)
tableauTable2 – Revisions of variations
| July/ June | June/ May | May/ Apr. | Q2 2017/ Q1 2017 | 2016/ 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large-scale food retailing | –0.11 | –0.12 | –0.44 | –0.35 | –0.01 |
| raw serie | –0.15 | –0.11 | –0.03 | –0.06 | 0.00 |
| SA-WDA parameters | 0.04 | –0.01 | –0.41 | –0.29 | –0.01 |
- How to read it: within large scale food retailing, the SA-WDA variation between June and July 2017 is revised by -0.11 points, mainly due to the raw series' revision.
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retailing activities (Emagsa)
Revisions
The variation in the turnover of large-scale food-retailing for July 2017 has been revised downwards to +0.3% instead of +0.5% previously published (rounded numbers).
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