Retail turnover at constant prices rose 0.3% from July, according to NSI\u2019s seasonally adjusted August figures. The calendar-adjusted annual increase was 5.9%.<\/p>\n
Month on month, fuel turnover rose 2.2%, while food, beverages and tobacco fell 0.4%. The figures are preliminary and exclude sales of motor vehicles and motorcycles.<\/p>\n
5000.news editorial team \u00b7 7 October 2026<\/p>\n
Sources: NSI \u2013 data and methodology, 7 October<\/a><\/p>\n Illustrative photo: Franki Chamaki \/ Unsplash. It does not show a specific Bulgarian shop or current prices in Bulgaria. Cropped to 1200\u00d7675 px. Photo source<\/a> \u00b7 Licence<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Preliminary figures for August 2026.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biznes","category-bulgaria","tag-aktualno"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}