(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 8 – ISTAT said Tuesday that retail sales
in Italy were down by 0.4% in April with respect to March in
value terms and by 0.5% in volume terms.
The national statistics agency said that retail sales were up
30.4% in value terms and 31.5% in volume terms compared to April
2020, the peak of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But it added that “retail sales levels for both value and volume
were still lower than pre-pandemic levels of February 2020”.
(ANSA).