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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1987

PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF RETAIL SALES SURVEY FOR JULY 1987

JULY IN

THEIR RESULTS STATISTICS

1987, ESTIMATED AT THE VALUE OF TOTAL RETAIL SALES $6,823 MILLION, WAS 17 PER CENT HIGHER THAN IN JULY 1986 WHILST VOLUME WAS NINE PER CENT HIGHER, ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONAL

BY (FRIDAY)

THE CENSUS AND OF A SURVEY RELEASED TODAY DEPARTMENT.

COMPARED WITH JULY 1986,

INCREASED BY 27 PER CENT IN VALUE AND 18 PER CENT CONSUMER GOODS" WENT UP BY 17 PER CENT IN SALES VALUE CENT IN VOLUME,

INCREASES FOOTWEAR AND ALLIED PRODUCTS WERE 16 PER CENT AND NINE PER CENT.

WHILE THE

CORRESPONDING

RETAIL SALES OF

CONSUMER DURABLES IN VOLUME. "OTHER AND EIGHT PER CLOTHING, FOR

VALUE AND THREE PER ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND

FUELS INCREASED BY 11 PER CENT IN SALES CENT IN SALES VOLUME. SALES OF FOODSTUFFS, TOBACCO ROSE BY EIGHT PER CENT IN VALUE AND SIX PER CENT IN VOLUME.

ANALYSED BY SELECTED TRADES, SALES OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND INCREASED VERY SUBSTANTIALLY IN BOTH VALUE AND VOLUME.

PARTS

DEPARTMENT STORES INCREASED VERY SUBSTANTIALLY IN AND SUBSTANTIALLY IN VOLUME.

SALES

VALUE

SUPERMARKET

SALES

INCREASED

SUBSTANTIALLY

IN

VALUE AND

CONSIDERABLY IN VOLUME.

CONSUMER

DURABLES

OTHER

THAN

MOTOR

VEHICLES

AND

PARTS

REGISTERED CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN BOTH SALES VALUE AND VOLUME.

MAY

JULY 1987 WITH THE SAME COMPARING THE THREE MONTHS

IN VALUE PERIOD IN 1986, TOTAL RETAIL SALES INCREASED BY 18 PER CENT AND 10 PER CENT IN VOLUME.

RETAIL SALES OF CONSUMER DURABLES SHOWED INCREASES CENT IN VALUE AND 16 PER CENT IN VOLUME.

OF 25 PER

FOOTWEAR

PER

AND ALLIED PRODUCTS" AND "OTHER BOTH "CLOTHING, CONSUMER GOODS" INCREASED BY 20 PER CENT IN SALES VALUE AND BY 13 CENT AND 11 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN SALES VOLUME.

SALES OF FOODSTUFFS, ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO PER CENT IN VALUE AND SIX PER CENT IN VOLUME.

FUELS WENT UP BY NINE PER CENT IN SALES CENT IN VOLUME.

ROSE BY 10

VALUE AND THREE PER

STORES

SALES OF BOTH "MOTOR VEHICLES AND PARTS" AND DEPARTMENT INCREASED VERY SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE AND SUBSTANTIALLY IN VOLUME.

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