Retail sales fell 1.4% in February compared with the previous month in data adjusted for the number of working days and seasonal factors, the statistics institute INS said.
Sales of food, beverages and tobacco products were down 2.9% on the month, while non-food product sales inched 0.6% lower compared with January. Fuel sales rose 1.5% on the month in February.
Against the same month of 2014, the growth of adjusted retail sales slowed down to 3.5%, from 6.8% in January.
Fuel sales rose 7.6% on the year in February, while sales of food products increased 6.6%. However, sales of non-food items went down 1.5% compared to February 2014.
For the first two months of the year, Romania retail sales posted a 4.9% increase compared with the same period of 2014 in adjusted data.
In unadjusted data, retail sales were down 1.5% in February from a month earlier, but 3.3% higher compared with the same period of 2014.