Tiraspol, 23 July. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. Pridnestrovie's retail trade turnover increased by 23% in the first half of 2018 (in comparable prices) compared to the same period in 2017, according to the Ministry of Economic Development of the PMR.
Thus, in the first six months of this year, 3.03 million roubles' worth of consumer goods were sold in the domestic market. Nearly 44% of this amount accounts for food, which also includes alcoholic beverages. Non-food products were sold to the amount of 1.855 million rubles, which is 56.2% of the total retail volume.
But the services market, on the contrary, shrank by 2.5% (adjusted for inflation), amounting to 1.104 million rubles. As noted in the ministry's report, this was caused including by socially oriented policies which approved tariffs for natural monopoly services.
