Pull sales and retail pharmacies grow 0.5%

São Paulo-an increase in the volume of sales at 4.3% put pharmacies, again, as protagonists of the Brazilian retail sales in September. The result, which takes place in comparison with August, served to reverse the losses of the previous month, when trade shrank 0.4 percent.
"High for the month of September was expected given the weakened performance in August. What surprise was the jump in the pharmacies and perfumeries, who gave a major jump in the volume of sales, "commented doctor in retail from the University of São Paulo (USP) and Professor at Universidade Paulista (Unip), Mara Cristina V.
In the view of the expert segment of hardware stores had been showing more resilient to crisis, despite the fall also on items from perfumeries, considered superfluous at a time of cost containment.
"With the advance in September, we can conclude that there was a widespread growth in the category, including the medicines, they were more fragile," he says.
The result can be confirmed by the latest research in Brazilian networks of Pharmacies and Drugstores (Abrafarma), which accounted for the deals of the 26 associated networks to the entity. According to the balance sheet, between January and September, the sale of non-prescription drugs (which includes hygiene items, cosmetics, perfumery and convenience) moved R $10.42 billion representing an increase of 7.21% over a year earlier.
Monthly result
With the result of September, which were better than expectations of market analysts, the retail segment tends to go into a wave of best sales, mainly due to Christmas and macroeconomic conditions.
"Low inflation and mainly the slight recovery of the labour market leads to the increase of demand," explained the research coordinator in the IBGE, Isabella Nunes.
The Christmas forecast stronger when we analyze the result in comparison internual. When compared with September of last year sales rose 6.4%.
"Economic conditions-interest, prices, income and expectations-conspire in favour for the brazilian economy to register positive domestic product rate in 2017 and the retail trade report inflection, after two years of consecutive declines," says the Economist the National Trade Confederation (CNC), Antonio Everton Junior. According to him, the entity already works with better prospects for sales in the final month of the year, with growth expectation at 4.8% on Christmas of 2016, slightly higher than the previous forecast (4.3%).
"The September result is justified, among other factors, by the disinflation process of food products and by greater consumer confidence in spending," the Economist.
When we analyze other threads, appears as also featured sales in supermarkets (1%) and other articles of personal use (2.9%). Even with positive variations, Fabrics, clothing and footwear (0.2%) and equipment and office supplies, computers and communication (0.9%). On the other hand, signaling fall in sales compared with August of 2017, fuels and lubricants (-0.7%) and Books, newspapers, magazines and stationery (-3.4%), both registering the third pullback followed.