Stores in food and luxury goods generated 3.8 percent more turnover than a year earlier. Supermarket turnover increased by 4.5 percent, while turnover in specialty food stores – such as fish shops and bakeries – decreased by 1.0 percent. At the same time, prices rose. The volume development within the supermarket sector is 0.7 percent, and the volume development of specialty food stores is -3.9 percent. The figures are adjusted for calendar effects.
Non-food stores recorded 4.2 percent more turnover compared to the third quarter of 2024. Sales volume also increased (2.9 percent). Especially stores selling recreational articles, clothing stores, and drugstores achieved higher turnover. Stores selling other household articles and consumer electronics stores recorded lower turnover (-2.2 percent and -4.5 percent). The volume development of the latter two categories is -4.7 percent and -2.7 percent respectively.
The business confidence of the retail sector is -4.8 percent at the beginning of the fourth quarter, almost equal to the sentiment about the third quarter. Entrepreneurs are more negative about the development of the economic climate (-7.1 percent) than about the expectation for the economic climate (-2.5 percent). Business confidence has been negative since the first quarter of 2022. Confidence grew in 2023, but it is still not positive in the last quarter of 2025.
However, entrepreneurs have positive investment expectations for 2026. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, a net 5.7 percent of entrepreneurs expect to invest more in 2026 than in 2025. Last year, entrepreneurs were still negative about their investments in the next year, with a balance of -6.6.
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