Month-on-month retail sales down 0.3% in July

(ANSA) - Rome, September 26 - Italian retail sales fell by 0.3% in value terms in July with respect to June and by 0.2% compared to the same month last year, Istat said on Monday. It is the first month-on-month fall that the national statistics agency has reported since March. The decline was largely down to 0.5% drop in sales of non-food goods, while food sales were up 0.3%. Istat said July's summer sales were not enough to raise fashion spending and consumption as a whole.
    It said clothes sales were down 0.2% on July 2015, while sales of footwear and leather items dropped 0.4%.