Neither Black Friday nor the Christmas campaign managed to encourage commerce last November, at the height of the second wave of the pandemic.

Retail sales fell 5.8% in the aforementioned month compared to the same month in 2019.

This,

despite the fact that Spain was in the middle of the Black Friday campaign

.

Compared with the previous month, with October, the fall was 0.8%, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), published this Monday.

Retail sales fell 15% in March and 20% in April.

As of May, they experienced a strong rise that has been attenuated until September, when they fell back.

In October they rose slightly to fall again now.

In this case,

Madrid is the only community in which sales did not fall

in November, if we compare it with the previous year.

It should be borne in mind that in the aforementioned month some communities had already imposed trade restrictions to control the contagions of this second wave.

The biggest collapse in this sense is experienced, in addition to Ceuta and Melilla, the Canary Islands, Andalusia, Catalonia and Asturias.

By type of distribution, it can be seen that

the consumer is betting on small

or more local

formats

, since the billing of large chains fell 2.6% compared to October and that of large stores, 2%, while Sales of small chains rose 1.6% compared to the previous month and those of independent companies, 0.2%.

By type of product,

food sales rose 0.2%

and non-food

sales

fell 1.8%.

If the latter is broken down by type of product, personal equipment is the one that decreased the most in November (-12.6%).

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • INE

  • Black friday

  • Catalonia

  • Melilla

  • Madrid

  • Spain

  • Ceuta

  • Canary Islands

  • Asturias

  • Andalusia

  • savings and consumption

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