- Prior +0.2%; revised to +0.3%
That’s another highly disappointing reading for German retail sales. Food sales were notably up on the month at least (+1.2%) but it’s not enough to offset the drop in non-food store sales (-0.7%) and online/mail-order sales (-0.6%). Just take note though that Destatis mentions that:
“For the reporting month of October 2025, the existing reporting group of legally required entities in the retail sector (previous sample) was replaced by a new sample. This new sample became effective retroactively from the reporting month of January 2024. To ensure comparability of the results despite the different samples, the metrics are chained forward; that is, existing series of metrics are extended using the metrics from the revised sample. For these reasons, revisions may occur in the results from January 2024 onwards.”
This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.