Adjusted sales of non-food items grew 3.5% on the month in April, while food, beverage and tobacco sales grew 1.6%, and fuel sales declined 0.2%.
Compared with April 2015, retail sales grew 19% in adjusted data, driven by 27% growth in sales of food, beverages and tobacco, while non-food sales grew 17.8%, and fuel sales grew 8.8%, the data showed.
In January-April, Romanian retail sales grew an adjusted 17.7% and an unadjusted 19.1% compared with the same period last year. Food, beverage and tobacco sales grew 26.5% in adjusted data, non-food sales grew 15.4%, and fuel sales grew 9.2%.