Lithuania’s retail sales rose for the fourth straight month in August, figures from the statistical office showed on Monday.
Retail sales, excluding VAT, increased a working-day adjusted 7.7 percent year-on-year in August, following a 7.1 percent rise in July.
Sales of non-food stores increased 12.2 percent annually in August and sales in specialized stores rose 6.4 percent.
Sales of food, alcoholic beverages and tobacco and non-specialized stores increased by 4.8 percent, each.
On a month-on-month basis, retail sales rose 0.5 percent in August.
For the January to August period, retail sales rose by a working-day adjusted 1.3 percent from the same period of the previous year.
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