Retail sales of food, beverages and tobacco rose 14% on the year in the first eight months, fuel sales went up 4.9%, while non-food product sales increased 0.3%.
In August alone, adjusted retail sales declined 0.3% compared with July, and increased 8% compared with August 2014.
Sales of fuels declined 4.3% on the month in August, while sales of food, beverages and tobacco were up 2%, and sales of non-food products increased 0.1%, the data showed.
Compared with August 2014, food, beverages and tobacco sales posted a growth of 25%, fuel sales grew 2.6%, and sales of non-food products rose a slight 0.4%.
In unadjusted data, retail sales rose 1.4% on the month in August and 9.6% compared with August 2014. In January-August, Romanian unadjusted retail sales grew 6.2% on the year.