Adjusted sales of food, beverages and tobacco decreased 0.2% on the month in July, while fuel sales increased 2.5%, and sales of non-food items increased 0.7%.
Compared with July 2015, adjusted retail sales grew 13.8%, as sales on non-food products grew 15.8%, fuel sales grew 14.4%, and sales of food, beverages and tobacco grew 10.6%, the data showed.
Unadjusted retail sales grew 11.7% in July compared with July 2015.
In the January-July period, adjusted retail sales in Romania grew 16.3% compared with the same period last year, as food, beverage and tobacco sales grew 21.3%, fuel sales were up 11.1%, and non-food sales grew 15.2%.
In unadjusted data, retail sales grew 16.9% on the year in January-July.