Peru Retail Sector Tender

The Ministry of Production Produce reported that retail sales in the retail sector reached S 3924 million during August of this year meaning an important advance of 13.7 in relation to the same period in 2020 and of 20.9 in comparison to August 2019.The head of Produce Jos Rogger Incio Snchez highlighted that these results exceeded pre-pandemic levels and were influenced by the greater openness of economic activities and the increase in household consumption due to the greater offers and store promotions.The activities that grew the most were department stores and hardware and finishing stores. We have accumulated six months of positive results and we have even exceeded the figures for August 2019 which is a very important indicator for the economic reactivation he said. Incio Snchez added that the internal trade sector generates more than 111 thousand jobs with women representing 54.1 of the total work generated in this area. Likewise permanent staff represents 79.9 of the total employment generated by this segment.ActivitiesAccording to information from the General Office for Impact Assessment and Economic Studies of Produce in August 2021 sales of the department store activity grew 50.1. This result was due to higher sales of clothing and footwear 76.0 furniture 25.0 and household items 24.5 through physical and online channels that offered discount offers from the 50 and 2x1.As for hardware stores sales increased 30.8 mainly due to higher demand from the construction sector. Regarding supermarkets and hypermarkets there was an advance of 6.3 explained by an increase in sales in food 5.7 beverages and tobacco 25.2 household items 2.3 and pharmaceuticals and cosmetics 19.3.Likewise sales of the activity of books newspapers and stationery for the fourth consecutive month registered a positive performance and grew 4.7. This result was due to the increase in demand for bookstore products mainly from the education sector productive activities and the public sector.Finally product placements from the home furnishing activity increased 7.6 as a result of the higher demand for the line of household items 7.5 the increase in the furniture line 61.3 and various products 5.7.