Italy retail sales fall 0.5% m/m in September

November 5 (Reuters) -Italian retail sales fell 0.5% in September from the month before, data showed on Wednesday, following a 0.2% fall in August.

National statistics institute ISTAT marginally revised down August's data from an originally reported 0.1% drop.

Sales rose 0.5% in unadjusted year-on-year terms in September, ISTAT said.

The data are expressed in value terms and are not adjusted for consumer prices, which increased 1.8% in September from the year earlier, based on Italy's EU-harmonised index (HICP).

ISTAT gave the following data:

September August July

Mth/Mth change* -0.5 -0.2r 0.0

Yr/yr change** +0.5 +0.6r +1.8

Food sales (m/m) -0.4 0.0r -0.5r

Non-food sales (m/m) -0.5 -0.2r +0.3

*seasonally adjusted

**unadjusted

r=revised

(Reporting by Claudio Leonel Piacquadio, editing by Antonella Cinelli)

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