shopping - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com Monthly in print | Daily on the web Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:48:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dteurope.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-dt_favicon-32x32.png shopping - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com 32 32 Retail Sales Rise 4.0% in December https://dteurope.com/commerce/retail-sales-rise-4-0-in-december/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:46:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=77902 Retail sales in Hungary rose 4.0% year-on-year in December, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Thursday show. Retail sales rose 3.5% when adjusted for calendar year effects. Adjusted food sales increased 2.1%, non-food sales climbed 4.3% and vehicle fuel sales rose 1.7%. Online and mail-order sales volume, which accounted for 9.3% of […]

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]]> Hardly Any Change in Retail Sales in Hungary Year-On-Year https://dteurope.com/economy/retail-sales-in-hungary-hardly-changed-in-march-year-on-year/ Tue, 06 May 2025 22:26:18 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=73756 In March 2025, the volume of retail trade was 0.4% lower in raw data, or 0.4% higher in calendar (and Easter effects) adjusted terms, than in the same month of the previous year, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office reports. Compared to the same period of the previous year, calendar-adjusted sale volumes expanded by 1.2% in […]

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]]> Big Innovation Coming to IKEA Stores in Hungary https://dteurope.com/commerce/big-innovation-coming-to-ikea-stores-in-hungary/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:05:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=66956 IKEA launched the ‘Shop & Go’ service in all three of its Budapest stores in August, allowing shoppers to scan the items in their shopping cart on their mobile phones using the IKEA app, and then scan the QR code to pay at the express checkout, according to a company statement published by the financial […]

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]]> Sales in Hungarian Retail Shops Fell by 12.6% https://dteurope.com/economy/sales-in-hungarian-retail-shops-fell-by-12-6/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:39:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=65070 In April 2023, the volume of sales in retail trade – along with a significant base effect - decreased by 13.6% according to raw data and by 12.6% when adjusted for calendar effects compared to the same period of the previous years. It is reported to be largest decrease in Europe. Calendar-adjusted sales volumes decreased […]

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]]> Major Development in Tesco's Hungarian Stores https://dteurope.com/commerce/major-development-in-tescos-hungarian-stores/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:56:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=62748 Tesco refurbished 25 of its stores in the 2022/23 financial year ending in February. The refurbishments have involved 12 hypermarkets and 13 convenience stores across Hungary to provide customers with a nicer shopping environment and workers with a more comfortable working environment. The HUF multi-billion improvements included optimizing the size and design of the stores' […]

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]]> Fuel Sales Help Hungarian Retail Trade Figures https://dteurope.com/trade/fuel-sales-help-hungarian-retail-trade-figures/ Mon, 05 Dec 2022 13:44:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=58686 In October 2022, the volume of retail trade in both raw and calendar-adjusted data was 0.6% higher than in the same month of the previous year in Hungary, the Central Statistical Office reports. Details reveal that that in October, calendar-adjusted sales volumes decreased by 5.6% in specialized and non-specialized food shops and by 0.9% in […]

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]]> Energy Crisis Plan for Hungarian Shops https://dteurope.com/trade/energy-crisis-plan-for-hungarian-shops/ Sat, 27 Aug 2022 09:02:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=54815 In the midst of the current severe energy crisis, the member businesses of the Hungarian Trade Association (OKSZ) – distributors of all sectors, including food, drugstore, various industrial goods such as clothing, toys, furniture, technical and DIY – have been looking at how they can operate more cost-effectively than ever before, as the drastic increase […]

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]]> More and More Foreigners in Hungarian Shops https://dteurope.com/news/more-and-more-foreigners-in-hungarian-shops/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 10:09:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=52684 A weaker Forint means that foreigners can shop cheaper in Hungarian shops. The Hungarian currency (HUF) is sinking to new lows, with the euro crossing the 410 forint level on Wednesday and the dollar above HUF 400. The weakening forint could make shopping in Hungary cheaper for consumers from neighbouring eurozone countries, such as Slovakia. […]

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]]> Automated Container Store Developed by Kende Gastro https://dteurope.com/commerce/automated-container-store-developed-by-kende-gastro/ Mon, 16 May 2022 17:15:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=50775 Kende Gastro Plc. has unveiled Hungary's first automated container store using artificial intelligence; the company is the exclusive European distributor of the technology and plans to expand to neighboring countries, Gábor Kende, founder and CFO of the company, told the state news agency MTI. The automated stores do not require staff, including cashiers, and use […]

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]]> Sales in Retail Shops Up by 5.7% https://dteurope.com/trade/sales-in-retail-shops-up-by-5-7/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 13:28:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=45689 In October 2021, the volume of retail trade in both raw and calendar-adjusted data was 5.7% higher in Hungary than in the same month of the previous year, the country's Central Statistical Office reports. In October, calendar-adjusted sales volumes rose by 3.4% in specialised and non-specialised food shops, by 6.3% in non-food retailing and, as […]

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]]> A Lot of Shops Have Disappeared in Hungary https://dteurope.com/trade/a-lot-of-shops-has-disappeared-in-hungary/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 07:59:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=43904 Over the past five years, 18,000 shops have closed in Hungary, leaving a retail network of 116,000 shops at the end of last year. And there are huge differences in daily spending across the country, the business news site napi.hu reports. The number of retail outlets including tobacco shops has decreased significantly in recent years, […]

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]]> Sales in Hungarian Retail Shops Up by 10.6% https://dteurope.com/commerce/sales-in-hungarian-retail-shops-up-by-10-6/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:18:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=41242 In April 2021, the volume of retail trade increased by 9.9% in raw data and by 10.6% in calendar-adjusted data, compared with the same period of the previous year, as a result of the gradual lifting of restrictions from mid-month, and the low point in April last year. In April, calendar-adjusted sales volumes rose by […]

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]]> Changing Consumer Habits in Hungary https://dteurope.com/commerce/changing-consumer-habits-in-hungary/ Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:07:47 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=33029 As a result of the coronavirus epidemic, consumer habits have changed and the composition of the consumer basket has also changed, according to a new survey. A research conducted by Mónika Garai-Fodor, Dean of the Károly Keleti Faculty of Economics at the University of Óbuda and Ágnes Csiszárik-Kocsir, Deputy Dean for Research shows that the […]

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]]> Retail Sales Down Year-on-Year in Hungary https://dteurope.com/commerce/retail-sales-down-year-on-year-in-hungary/ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:22:41 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=26503 In September 2020, the volume of sales in retail shops decreased by 1.6% according to raw data and by 2.0% when adjusted for calendar effects compared to the same period of the previous year.  Providing the details, a fresh report by the Central Statistical Office says that the volume of sales, adjusted for calendar effects, […]

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]]> Trade Union Calls for Shorter Shop Opening Hours https://dteurope.com/business/retail-workers-union-lobbies-for-curbing-sunday-opening-hours/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:21:43 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=13957 The Independent Trade Union of Retail Workers (KDFSZ) has called on Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony to put forward a proposal limiting Sunday shop opening hours in Budapest, daily Magyar Nemzet reported. The trade union wants supermarkets with a floor area exceeding 400 square meters to be open only until 2 pm on the last day […]

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