{"id":435246,"date":"2026-08-03T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/germany-retail-sales-slump-in-june-despite-stronger-petrol-station-sales-again-435246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:17:57","slug":"germany-retail-sales-slump-in-june-despite-stronger-petrol-station-sales-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/germany-retail-sales-slump-in-june-despite-stronger-petrol-station-sales-again-435246\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany retail sales slump in June despite stronger petrol station sales again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>June retail sales -1.1% vs -0.1% m\/m expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +1.1%; revised to +1.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">It is a rather disappointing reading following the stronger bounce in May, which owed to a bit of a caveat. The May rebound was largely due to petrol station sales, which climbed by 3.5%,\u00a0amid political countermeasures with there being a fuel discount offered up from 1 May to 30 June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">That being said, petrol station sales continued to be strong in June with it rising by another 2.1% in real terms. Instead, it was broader categories that led to the marked decline in overall retail sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Of note, retail sales of food products fell by 1.4% in real terms while sales for\u00a0non-food retail trade fell by 1.0% on the month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Taking that into consideration, it&#8217;s not quite a good look as the retail sales picture remains rather subdued. And if not for the rebound in petrol station sales in May and June, it could&#8217;ve been much worse. Owing to that, German retail sales did at least increase by 0.7% in real terms during the first half of the year compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June retail sales -1.1% vs -0.1% m\/m expected Prior +1.1%; revised to +1.2% It is a rather disappointing reading following the stronger bounce in May, which owed to a bit of a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}