Retail Sales Increase 4.2% In September 2014
Retail sales in September 2014 were 4.2% higher than the $78.8 million recorded in September 2013, and after adjusting for the annual retail sales rate of inflation — 1.4% in September — the volume of retail sales increased by 2.8%.
All retail sectors recorded increased sales, with motor vehicle retailers recording the strongest increase in sales of 19.3%. Receipts from food sales increased 1.9%, while liquor stores reported an 8.6% rise in gross receipts during September 2014
Returning residents declared overseas purchases valued at $4.4 million, 10.2% lower than in September 2013. This contributed to a combined local and overseas spending total of $86.5 million.
The full September 2014 Retail Sales Index is below [PDF here]:
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8.6% increase in liquor sales.
I wonder why.
Happy weekend folks.
Lickhar 8.6%?
Damn…
The tanker has started to turn around. Keep it going OBA!!
Really? Then it must be champagne sales that are driving the liquor numbers up. Somehow I doubt it. The tanker has turned back which to some looks like improvement.
If I can get a job I’ll call that an improvement. What would you call it?
In what year did you lose your job?
2 dislikes !!!
I guess 2 people want the country to fail and their children to suffer.
Probably some extremist political fantanatics. win at all costs, even if it cost us all our futures. aka suckers
Just so I’m clear, everything that happens in Bermuda is because of the OBA? okay… gotcha…
No…don’t be silly. Port Royal is all PLP, for example.
Particularly if it involves rebuilding confidence in bermuda. Yes.
Ahhh… so everything good = OBA and everything bad = PLP… gotcha…