In the first full month in which the Netherlands, in a partial lockdown, was, were merchants and grocers in business. For clothing and shoe stores, it was just a really bad month, it is clear from the Friday to the published figures from the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) on retail sales in the month of april.
the Overall revenue for that month, but slightly lower than in the same month of the previous year, when there was nothing going on. The differences between the sectors, however, are great. Moreover, the value of the goods that are online sold by no less than 61 per cent increase compared to the previous year.
In march, consumers are already flocking to the day of the shot. That was in april and, further, has shown to the hardware store. “The stores showed the biggest increase in sales since the beginning of the publication of the figures reported in 2005,” according to CBS. “The clothing and shoe stores were on the other hand, an even greater loss of revenue than in the previous month.”
The contrasts between the sectors are large,
The reduction of sales in non-food was about 16 percent, the biggest since January 2005, when the figures were first published. The non-food sector, the contrast is big”, says the CBS.
as well as hardware stores and clothing and shoe stores are there as well, for example, medicine and computer to. Medicine is doing in the netherlands is not very good and the computer is just as hardware does.
In all, the food industry realized that both supermarkets and specialty shops such as the butcher’s and the greengrocer’s, in april, an increase in sales. In supermarkets, a rise of 6.6 per cent., in the shops came in a 2.2 percent increase in revenue.