{"id":309666,"date":"2026-03-02T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309666\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:32:13","slug":"germany-january-retail-sales-0-9-vs-0-2-m-m-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309666\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany January retail sales -0.9% vs -0.2% m\/m expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +0.1%; revised to +1.2%<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">The drop here needs to be put into context a little more, as it comes after a major bump up in the December 2025 retail sales jump. That figure was seen revised from +0.1% to +1.2% on the month. So, the miss on estimates in the headline isn&#8217;t as bad as what it might imply at first glance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Looking at the details, the decline in January 2026 stems mostly from a fall in the non-food retail sector. Sales there fell by 1.7% on the month while food store sales were unchanged in real terms for the first month of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior +0.1%; revised to +1.2% The drop here needs to be put into context a little more, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-309666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}