Retail sales have high of 3.3% in August

The resumption of total sales was your fourth month in a row in August 2017, with growth of 3.3% (excluding auto sales and construction materials) on the same period of the previous year, according to SpendingPulse, the retail indicator from Mastercard. The average growth of the last three months was 3 percent over the same period to 2016 and above the second quarter of 2017, which expanded 1.1%.
Sectors such as supermarkets, pharmaceutical articles, building materials and furniture and appliances – being the last two categories characterized by being dependent on credit-had growth above the indicator of total sales. On the other hand, the areas of personal and household items, clothing and fuel had performance below.

E-commerce grew 19.2% in August compared with the same period of the previous year, maintaining the perennial growth. The furniture and clothing sectors had higher than average results of the distribution channel, while hobby & Bookstore, electronics and pharmaceutical items were below the channel's growth.