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Italy retail sales fall 0.5% m/m in September
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on November 5, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on November 5, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Italy's retail sales dropped 0.5% in September, following a revised 0.2% decline in August. Year-on-year sales saw a 0.5% increase, with consumer prices up 1.8%.
November 5 (Reuters) -Italian retail sales fell 0.5% in September from the month before, data showed on Wednesday, following a 0.2% fall in August.
National statistics institute ISTAT marginally revised down August's data from an originally reported 0.1% drop.
Sales rose 0.5% in unadjusted year-on-year terms in September, ISTAT said.
The data are expressed in value terms and are not adjusted for consumer prices, which increased 1.8% in September from the year earlier, based on Italy's EU-harmonised index (HICP).
ISTAT gave the following data:
September August July
Mth/Mth change* -0.5 -0.2r 0.0
Yr/yr change** +0.5 +0.6r +1.8
Food sales (m/m) -0.4 0.0r -0.5r
Non-food sales (m/m) -0.5 -0.2r +0.3
*seasonally adjusted
**unadjusted
r=revised
(Reporting by Claudio Leonel Piacquadio, editing by Antonella Cinelli)
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