22 December 2017
2017- n° 349In November 2017, the turnover bounced back in large-scale food retailing (+2.4%) Turnover in large-scale food retailing - November 2017
In November 2017, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back sharply (+2.4% after −1.8% in October). The sales recovered strongly in non-food products (+4.8% after −4.1%). They also picked up in food products (+1.2% after −0.9%). After a downturn in October (−2.8%), sales of automotive fuel recovered (+3.9%).
Sales picked up in supermarkets (+1.4% after −0.6%) and still more markedly in hypermarkets (+2.5% after −2.2%).
In November 2017, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back sharply (+2.4% after −1.8% in October). The sales recovered strongly in non-food products (+4.8% after −4.1%). They also picked up in food products (+1.2% after −0.9%). After a downturn in October (−2.8%), sales of automotive fuel recovered (+3.9%).
Sales picked up in supermarkets (+1.4% after −0.6%) and still more markedly in hypermarkets (+2.5% after −2.2%).
Increase over the last three months
Over the last three months (September to November), the turnover in large-scale food retailing went up compared to the previous three months (+0.9%). Over that period, sales increased markedly in automative fuel (+5.4%). They were stable in food products and rose slightly in non-food products (+0.4%). Turnover grew in supermarkets (+1.4%) and hypermarkets (+0.9%).
Growth of 1.0% over a year
The turnover of the past three months in large-scale food retailing rose by 1.0% compared to the same period a year earlier. Sales grew sharply in non-food products (+2.0%) whereas they decreased modestly in food products (−0.8%). Sales of automotive fuel surged (+7.9%), boosted by the upturn in fuel prices. Year on year, sales increased more in supermarkets (+1.5%) than in hypermarkets (+0.5%).
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 | Nov./Oct. | Oct./Sept. | Sept./ Aug. | q-o-q (1) | y-o-y (2) |
| Turnover (*) | 2.4 | –1.8 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| including | |||||
| Sales of food products(**) | 1.2 | –0.9 | 1.6 | 0.0 | –0.8 |
| Sales of non-food products(**) | 4.8 | –4.1 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 2.0 |
| Sales of automotive fuel(**) | 3.9 | –2.8 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 7.9 |
| including | |||||
| Supermarkets(***) | 1.4 | –0.6 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
| Hypermarkets(***) | 2.5 | –2.2 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
- (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
| Oct./ Sept. | Sept./ Aug. | Aug./ July | Q3 2017/ Q2 2017 | 2016/ 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large-scale food retailing | –0.19 | 0.16 | –0.11 | 0.05 | 0.00 |
| raw serie | –0.29 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 |
| SA-WDA parameters | 0.10 | 0.11 | –0.11 | 0.03 | 0.00 |
- How to read it: Within large scale food retailing, the SA-WDA variation between September 2017 and October 2017 is revised by −0.19 points: −0.29 points due to the raw series' revision and +0.10 points to the new calculation of SA-WDA parameters.
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retailing activities (Emagsa)
Revisions
The variation in the turnover of large-scale food-retailing for October 2017 has been revised downwards by 0.2 points to −1.8% instead of −1.6% previously released.
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