Lithuania Retail Sales Rise For Second Month

Lithuania’s retail sales rose for the second straight month in June, figures from the statistical office showed on Tuesday.

Retail sales, excluding VAT, increased a working-day adjusted 5.1 percent year-on-year in June, after a 0.9 percent rise in May.

Sales of non-food stores increased 5.5 percent annually in June and sales in non-specialized stores rose 0.5 percent.

Sales of food, alcoholic beverages and tobacco increased 0.7 percent.

On a month-on-month basis, retail sales gained 5.6 percent in June. Sales increased after the revocation of the quarantine measures related to Covid-19 pandemic.

For the January to June period, retail sales declined by a working-day adjusted 1.1 percent from the same period of the previous year.

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