Sales of fuel grew 5.1% on the month in October, food sales grew 0.4%, while sales of non-food items declined half a point.
Compared with October 2014, adjusted retail sales grew 11.1%, due to a growth of 25.1% in food, beverage and tobacco sales. Sales of fuel rose 11.3% and non-food items posted 3.9% growth, the data showed.
In January-October, Romanian adjusted retail sales grew 6.9%, with a 16.3% growth in food, beverage and tobacco sales, a 5.7% growth in fuel sales, and 1.1% growth in sales of non-food items.
In unadjusted data, retail sales were up 0.4% on the month in October and 11.1% compared with October 2014. In January-October, unadjusted retail sales grew 7.4% compared with the corresponding period last year.