Retail sales of food, beverages and tobacco rose 12.3% on the year in the first seven months, fuel sales went up 5.3%, while non-food product sales increased 0.3%.
In July alone, adjusted retail sales rose 1.1% compared with June and 8.5% compared with July 2015, the data showed.
Sales of fuels increased 4.1% on the month in July, sales of food, beverages and tobacco were up 0.4%, and sales of non-food products increased 0.1%.
Compared with July 2014, food, beverages and tobacco sales posted a growth of 21.7%, fuel sales grew 6.7%, and sales of non-food products rose 1.5%.
In unadjusted data, retail sales rose 7.9% on the month in July and 9.6% compared with July 2014. In the first seven months of the year, unadjusted retail sales rose 5.6% compared with the same period in 2014.