{"id":135203,"date":"2024-07-07T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=135203"},"modified":"2024-07-05T17:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T14:47:05","slug":"the-estonian-retail-slump-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/the-estonian-retail-slump-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Estonian retail slump continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">According to data reeased by Statistics Estonia, the turnover of retail trade companies in May 2024 was 898 million euros, marking a 4 per cent decrease compared to May 2023. This decline was primarily driven by a significant drop in the sales of manufactured goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cStores selling manufactured goods experienced an 8 per cent year-on-year decrease in turnover. The turnover volume was down in almost all stores selling manufactured goods, except for pharmacies and stores selling cosmetics where turnover volume remained at last year&#8217;s level,\u201d Johanna Linda Pihlak, an analyst at Statistics Estonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Among stores selling manufactured goods, the steepest decline was observed in those selling household goods and appliances, hardware, and building materials, with a 15 per cent drop in turnover. Other notable decreases included a 12 per cent decline in mail order and internet sales, a 7 per cent drop in stores selling second-hand goods and non-store retail sales such as stalls and markets, and a 4 per cent decrease in stores selling textiles, clothing, and footwear. Additionally, turnover fell by 3 per cent in stores specialising in computers, books, sports equipment, games, and toys, as well as in department stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Grocery stores also saw a decrease in turnover by 2 per cent compared to May 2023. Conversely, enterprises engaged in the retail sale of automotive fuel experienced a 1 percent increase in turnover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">On a monthly basis, the volume of retail trade turnover grew by 7 per cent in May compared to April. However, seasonally and working-day adjusted data indicated a 1 percent decrease from the previous month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Overall, in the first five months of 2024, the turnover volume of retail trade enterprises has decreased by 4 percent compared to the same period in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to data reeased by Statistics Estonia, the turnover of retail trade companies in May 2024 was 898 million &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":135175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[19345,22279,22280,22282,14668,16404,16699],"class_list":["post-135203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-estonia-economy","tag-statistic-estonia","tag-may-2024","tag-economic-trends","tag-retail-turnover","tag-retail-trade","tag-grocery-stores"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135204,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135203\/revisions\/135204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}