Furniture stores take advantage of the coronacrisis: sales plust the 27 percent increase in June

The sales at the furniture stores in June, with 27 per cent. The reason for this is the fact that the consumers have a lot more time at home to spend time reporting group for a non-food stores INretail.

in the months of april and may could be the sector to benefit from a strong growth in turnover, respectively, were 3.6 and 16.5 percent of the time. The whole of the second quarter, the increase, therefore, from a drop of 16.3 per cent.

the Bert-Jan van der Stelt, woonspecialist with INretail, which explains the increase is due to humans, as well as their working hours as their free time at home together because of the home and the limits on the subject of holidays and special events. Therefore, they wanted to have their own homes to be as comfortable and pleasant as possible.

The figures come from the omzetmonitor the association for a number of years to track. To this end, the omzetwijzigingen with 750 stores in both smes, large supply chains) are maintained.

This relates to furniture, slaapspecialisten, keukenverkopers, stores, and retailers of home textiles, such as floors and curtains. Do-it-yourself stores and garden centers are not among them.

In march, it declined in the turnover of home furnishing stores have
The rate of increase in the second quarter, the financial and the dramatic end of march, when the sales at some furniture stores and even halveerden through the empty streets, and furniture boulevards.

Although it has increased in the onlineomzet, but it was not enough for the falling sales in its stores to compensate. The revenue, which came in march at a loss of an average of 10.3 per cent.

as Of the of the is because of the increased attention of consumers for the establishment of their own home, to be optimistic about the rest of the year. "As long as the government isn't forcing the new restrictive measures", he adds.