Non-food sales grew 5.4% on the month in November, while sales of food beverages and tobacco grew 1.4%, and fuel sales grew 0.8%, the data showed.
Compared with November 2014, adjusted retail sales were 13% higher, driven by a 29% growth in food sales. Non-food sales were up 6.3% and fuel sales were up 8.8%.
In the January-November period, Romania’s retail sales grew 7.6% compared with the same period in 2014, as food sales grew 17.7% due to a five percentage point cut in the value-added tax on food that took effect in June. Fuel sales grew 6% year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2015, while sales of non-food items grew 1.7%.
In unadjusted data, retail sales grew 2.3% on the month in November and 15% compared with November 2014. In January-November, unadjusted retail sales grew 8.2% year-on-year.