30 November 2018
2018- n° 319In October 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing kept rising (+1.1%) Turnover in large-scale food retailing - October 2018
In October 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing kept rising (+1.1% after +0.4% in September). Sales increased again in food products (+0.5% after +0.8%), they bounced back in non-food products (+0.8% after −0.8%) and gathered pace in automotive fuel (+3.1% after +0.8%).
Turnover kept increasing in supermarkets (+1.2% after +1.3%) and in hypermarkets (+0.6% after +0.3%).
In October 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing kept rising (+1.1% after +0.4% in September). Sales increased again in food products (+0.5% after +0.8%), they bounced back in non-food products (+0.8% after −0.8%) and gathered pace in automotive fuel (+3.1% after +0.8%).
Turnover kept increasing in supermarkets (+1.2% after +1.3%) and in hypermarkets (+0.6% after +0.3%).
Decrease over the last three months
Over the last three months (August to October), the turnover in large-scale food retailing decreased compared to the previous three months (−0.8%). Over that period, sales fell in food products (−1.1%) and in non-food products (−1.2%). By contrast, they grew in automotive fuel (+2.1%).
Turnover decreased more in supermarkets (−1.7%) than in hypermarkets (−0.4%).
Growth of 2.7% over a year
The turnover of the past three months in large-scale food retailing rose by 2.7% compared to the same period one year earlier. Sales in food products increased (+1.6%) whereas they decreased in non-food products (−3.4%). Sales of automotive fuel surged (+16.8%).
Year on year, sales increased in supermarkets (+3.0%) and in hypermarkets (+2.6%).
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 (*) | 1.1 | 0.4 | –1.9 | –0.8 | 2.7 |
| including | |||||
| Sales of food products(**) | 0.5 | 0.8 | –2.2 | –1.1 | 1.6 |
| Sales of non-food products(**) | 0.8 | –0.8 | –1.7 | –1.2 | –3.4 |
| Sales of automotive fuel(**) | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 16.8 |
| including | |||||
| Supermarkets(***) | 1.2 | 1.3 | –2.9 | –1.7 | 3.0 |
| Hypermarkets(***) | 0.6 | 0.3 | –1.4 | –0.4 | 2.6 |
- (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 | Q2 2018/ Q1 2018 | 2017/ 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large-scale food retailing | –0.38 | 0.08 | –0.01 | –0.09 | 0.00 |
| raw serie | –0.53 | 0.09 | –0.02 | –0.14 | 0.00 |
| SA-WDA parameters | 0.15 | –0.01 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.00 |
- How to read it: Within large scale food retailing, the SA-WDA variation between August and September is revised by -0.38 points: -0.53 points are due to the raw series' revision and +0.15 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 2018 has been revised downwards by 0.4 points to +0.4% instead of +0.8% previously published.
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