21 December 2018
2018- n° 348In November 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing fell back (−1.0%) Turnover in large-scale food retailing - November 2018
In November 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing fell back (−1.0% after +1.1% in October). Sales dwindled in food products (−1.2% after +0.2%) and in non-food products (−2.9% after +2.0%). By contrast, it kept increasing in automotive fuel (+0.5% after +4.1%).
Turnover fell back in supermarkets (−1.0% after +1.3%) and in hypermarkets (−0.8% after +0.8%).
In November 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing fell back (−1.0% after +1.1% in October). Sales dwindled in food products (−1.2% after +0.2%) and in non-food products (−2.9% after +2.0%). By contrast, it kept increasing in automotive fuel (+0.5% after +4.1%).
Turnover fell back in supermarkets (−1.0% after +1.3%) and in hypermarkets (−0.8% after +0.8%).
Decrease over the last three months
Over the last three months (September to November), the turnover in large-scale food retailing decreased (−0.3%) compared to the previous three months. Over that period, sales fell in food products (−0.6%) and in non-food products (−0.7%). By contrast, they grew in automotive fuel (+3.5%).
Turnover decreased slightly in supermarkets (−0.2%) and was virtually stable in hypermarkets (+0.1%).
Growth of 1.8% over a year
The turnover of the past three months in large-scale food retailing rose by 1.8% compared to the same period one year earlier. Sales in food products increased (+0.4%) whereas they decreased in non-food products (−3.5%). Sales of automotive fuel surged (+16.9%).
Year on year, sales increased in supermarkets (+2.2%) and in hypermarkets (+1.9%).
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 (*) | –1.0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | –0.3 | 1.8 |
| including | |||||
| Sales of food products(**) | –1.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | –0.6 | 0.4 |
| Sales of non-food products(**) | –2.9 | 2.0 | –0.7 | –0.7 | –3.5 |
| Sales of automotive fuel(**) | 0.5 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 3.5 | 16.9 |
| including | |||||
| Supermarkets(***) | –1.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 | –0.2 | 2.2 |
| Hypermarkets(***) | –0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.9 |
- (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 2018/ Q2 2018 | 2017/ 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large-scale food retailing | –0.05 | –0.17 | 0.10 | –0.01 | 0.00 |
| raw serie | 0.04 | –0.19 | 0.17 | 0.04 | 0.00 |
| SA-WDA parameters | –0.09 | 0.02 | –0.07 | –0.05 | 0.00 |
- How to read it: Within large scale food retailing, the SA-WDA variation between September and October is revised by -0.05 points: +0.04 points are due to the raw series' revision and -0.09 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 October 2018 is unchanged at +1.1% (rounded number) compared to the previous release.
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