RETAIL SALES of PARANÁ HAVE BEST YEAR SINCE 2015

Retail paranaense closed the year of 2017 with 0.54% increase in sales, according to the Economic Research of the Federation of trade in goods, services and tourism of Paraná (Fecomércio PR). Although shy, this slight elevation of billing stops the string of losses for two consecutive years. In 2016 sales volume had fallen 3.08% and in 2015 the low was 8.79%. The sectors that performed better in the last year, there were decorations and furniture housewares (22.77%), Department stores (13.95%) and footwear (6.95), car dealerships (6.25%). Christmas Christmas sales were 0.19% smaller than in 2016, contrary to the expectation of high in comparison with the same month of the previous year, as vines occurring this July 2017.