29 June 2018
2018- n° 177In May 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back markedly (+2.5%) Turnover in large-scale food retailing - May 2018
In May 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back markedly (+2.5% after −3.2% in April). The sales recovered strongly in food products (+3.6% after −4.8%) and fell back in non-food products (−0.4% after +0.8%). Sales of automotive fuel gathered pace (+2.7% after +0.4%).
Sales bounced back in supermarkets (+3.6% after −1.9%) as well as in hypermarkets (+1.4% after −3.1%).
In May 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back markedly (+2.5% after −3.2% in April). The sales recovered strongly in food products (+3.6% after −4.8%) and fell back in non-food products (−0.4% after +0.8%). Sales of automotive fuel gathered pace (+2.7% after +0.4%).
Sales bounced back in supermarkets (+3.6% after −1.9%) as well as in hypermarkets (+1.4% after −3.1%).
Increase over the last three months
Over the last three months (March to May), the turnover in large-scale food retailing went up compared to the previous three months (+1.6%). Over that period, sales increased markedly in automotive fuel (+2.3%) and in food products (+1.5%). Sales in non-food products increased more moderately (+0.5%). Turnover increased both in supermarkets (+1.5%) and in hypermarkets (+1.3%).
Growth of 2.5% over a year
The turnover of the past three months in large-scale food retailing rose by 2.5% compared to the same period one year earlier. Sales grew in food products (+1.7%) whereas they decreased in non-food products (−1.7%). By contrast, sales of automotive fuel surged (+10.6%). Year on year, sales increased more in supermarkets (+3.2%) than in hypermarkets (+2.1%).
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 | May/Apr | Apr/Mar | Mar/ Feb. | q-o-q (1) | y-o-y (2) |
| Turnover (*) | 2.5 | –3.2 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 2.5 |
| including | |||||
| Sales of food products(**) | 3.6 | –4.8 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 1.7 |
| Sales of non-food products(**) | –0.4 | 0.8 | –1.2 | 0.5 | –1.7 |
| Sales of automotive fuel(**) | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 10.6 |
| including | |||||
| Supermarkets(***) | 3.6 | –1.9 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 3.2 |
| Hypermarkets(***) | 1.4 | –3.1 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 2.1 |
- (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
| Apr/ Mar | Mar/ Feb. | Feb./ Jan. | Q1 2018/ Q4 2017 | 2017/ 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large-scale food retailing | –0.61 | 0.34 | 0.03 | 0.20 | 0.01 |
| raw serie | –0.83 | 0.57 | –0.01 | 0.15 | 0.00 |
| SA-WDA parameters | 0.22 | –0.23 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
- How to read it: Within large scale food retailing, the SA-WDA variation between March and April is revised by −0.61 points: −0.83 points are due to the raw series' revision and +0.22 points to the new calculation of the SA-WDA
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retailing activities (Emagsa)
Revisions
The variation in the turnover of large-scale food-retailing for April 2018 has been revised downwards by 0.6 points to −3.2% instead of −2.6% previously published.
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