30 November 2017
2017- n° 321In October 2017, the turnover fell back sharply in large-scale food retailing (−1.6%) Turnover in large-scale food retailing - October 2017
In October 2017, the turnover in large-scale food retailing fell back sharply (−1.6% after +2.5% in September). The sales slipped back in food products (−0.7% after +1.6%), as well as in non-food products (−4.1% after +3.5%). After two increasing months, sales of automotive fuel declined (−3.0% after +4.5%).
In October, sales decreased slightly in supermarkets (−0.4%) and more markedly in hypermarkets (−2.4%).
In October 2017, the turnover in large-scale food retailing fell back sharply (−1.6% after +2.5% in September). The sales slipped back in food products (−0.7% after +1.6%), as well as in non-food products (−4.1% after +3.5%). After two increasing months, sales of automotive fuel declined (−3.0% after +4.5%).
In October, sales decreased slightly in supermarkets (−0.4%) and more markedly in hypermarkets (−2.4%).
Fall over the last three months
Over the last three months (August to October), 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 (−1.1%) as in non-food products (−0.5%). However, they grew in automative fuel (+2.2%). Sales declined in supermarkets (−0.4%) in the same way as in hypermarkets (−0.5%).
Growth of 0.3% over a year
The turnover of the past three months in large-scale food retailing rose by 0.3% compared to the same period a year earlier. Sales grew moderately in non-food products (+0.7%) whereas they decreased clearly in food products (−1.5%). Sales of automotive fuel surged (+7.3%), boosted by the upturn in fuel prices. Year on year, sales increased in supermarkets (+0.6%). They decreased in hypermarkets (−0.3%).
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 | Oct./ Sept. | Sept./Aug | Aug./July | q-o-q (1) | y-o-y (2) |
| Turnover (*) | −1.6 | 2.5 | −1.9 | −0.6 | 0.3 |
| including | |||||
| Sales of food products(**) | −0.7 | 1.6 | −2.0 | −1.1 | −1.5 |
| Sales of non-food products(**) | −4.1 | 3.5 | −1.8 | −0.5 | 0.7 |
| Sales of automotive fuel(**) | −3.0 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 7.3 |
| including | |||||
| Supermarkets(***) | −0.4 | 2.6 | −1.5 | −0.4 | 0.6 |
| Hypermarkets(***) | −2.4 | 2.9 | −1.9 | −0.5 | −0.3 |
- (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
| Sept./ Aug. | Aug./ July | July/ June | Q3 2017/ Q2 2017 | 2016/ 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large-scale food retailing | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
| raw serie | 0.37 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.00 |
| SA-WDA parameters | –0.18 | 0.06 | –0.01 | –0.05 | 0.00 |
- How to read it: Within large scale food retailing. the SA-WDA variation between August 2017 and September 2017 is revised by -0.19 points: +0.37 points are due to the raw series revision and −0.18 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 September 2017 has been revised upwards by 0.2 points to +2.5% instead of +2.3% previously published.
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