Lithuania retail sales growth slows in February

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Lithuania's retail sales growth eased to the lowest in three months in February, figures from Statistics Lithuania (LS) showed on Monday.

Retail sales, excluding VAT (value-added tax), increased a working-day adjusted 12.7% year-on-year in February, after an 18.1% growth in January.

The latest retail sales growth was the lowest since November last year.

Sales of non-food stores grew 31.8% annually in February and those in specialized stores rose 11.7%.

Sales in non-specialized stores and those of food, alcoholic beverages and tobacco decreased by 5.3% and 4.9%, respectively.

On a month-on-month basis, retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in February. 

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