The volume of retail sales fell in April on both a monthly and annual basis, according to the Central Statistics Office.<\/p>\n
The volume of sales fell 0.2% compared to March and was 0.5% lower compared to April 2025.<\/p>\n
When motor sales are excluded, sales fell 0.6% month-on-month, but were 0.4% higher compared to last year.<\/p>\n
Clothing, footwear and textiles saw the biggest decrease in sales compared to March, down 2.9%<\/p>\n
The volume of fuel sales was 2.3% lower, while electrical goods were down 2%.<\/p>\n
Some areas did see an increase in sales volumes, however.<\/p>\n
Books, newspaper and stationary sales were up 4.6%, while food, beverage and tobacco sales rose by 3.9%.<\/p>\n
In value terms, the monthly decline was more pronounced, with a 0.4% fall compared to March.<\/p>\n
However year-on-year – despite falling volumes – sales values were up 1%. This reflects the continued rise in prices across the economy.<\/p>\n
Excluding motor sales, sales values were up 3.2% compared to April 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The volume of retail sales fell in April on both a monthly and annual basis, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-474944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}