31 August 2018
2018- n° 232In July 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back (+1.1%) Turnover in large-scale food retailing - July 2018
In July 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back after a slight decrease in June (+1.1% after −0.3%). Sales recovered in food products (+1.0% after −1.0%) and more strongly in non-food products (+1.7% after −1.6%). By contrast, sales of automotive fuel fell back (−0.3% after +1.3%).
Sales went up sharply in supermarkets (+1.1% after −1.7%) and gathered pace in hypermarkets (+0.9% after +0.3%).
In July 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back after a slight decrease in June (+1.1% after −0.3%). Sales recovered in food products (+1.0% after −1.0%) and more strongly in non-food products (+1.7% after −1.6%). By contrast, sales of automotive fuel fell back (−0.3% after +1.3%).
Sales went up sharply in supermarkets (+1.1% after −1.7%) and gathered pace in hypermarkets (+0.9% after +0.3%).
Increase over the last three months
Over the last three months (May to July), the turnover in large-scale food retailing increased compared to the previous three months (+1.1%). Over that period, sales rose slightly in food products (+0.8%) whereas they dwindled in non-food products (−0.9%). They grew sharply in automotive fuel (+4.4%) Turnover increased in supermarkets (+1.9%) and more moderately in hypermarkets (+0.7%).
Growth of 3.6% over a year
The turnover of the past three months in large-scale food retailing rose by 3.6% compared to the same period one year earlier. Sales in food products increased sharply (+2.1%) whereas they decreased in non-food products (−3.1%). Sales of automotive fuel surged (+19.3%). Year on year, sales increased more in supermarkets (+5.2%) than in hypermarkets (+2.9%).
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 - Enquête mensuelle sur les grandes surfaces alimentaires (EMAGSA)
tableauTable1 – Turnover in large-scale food retailing
| Variation en % | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kind of stores or kind of products | July/June | June/May | May/Apr | q-o-q (1) | y-o-y (2) |
| Turnover (*) | 1.1 | –0.3 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 3.6 |
| including | |||||
| Sales of food products(**) | 1.0 | –1.0 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 2.1 |
| Sales of non-food products(**) | 1.7 | –1.6 | –0.4 | –0.9 | –3.1 |
| Sales of automotive fuel(**) | –0.3 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 19.3 |
| including | |||||
| Supermarkets(***) | 1.1 | –1.7 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 5.2 |
| Hypermarkets(***) | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 2.9 |
- (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
| June/ May | May/ Apr | Apr/ Mar | Q2 2018/ Q1 2018 | 2017/ 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large-scale food retailing | 0.56 | 0.32 | –0.19 | 0.23 | –0.01 |
| raw serie | 0.79 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.28 | 0.00 |
| SA-WDA parameters | –0.23 | 0.32 | –0.19 | –0.05 | –0.01 |
- How to read it: Within large scale food retailing, the SA-WDA variation between May and June is revised by +0.56 points: +0.79 points are due to the raw series' revision and -0.23 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 June 2018 has been revised upwards by 0.6 points to −0.3% instead of −0.9% previously published.
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