Overview

• Wholesale cash-and-carry sales fell 1.8% from May and 8.4% year over year, reaching the lowest seasonally adjusted level since the series began in 2017.
• Supermarket sales rose 0.2% month over month and 0.8% year over year, yet the trend has been flat since March with a slight trend-cycle dip, and category data show declines in dairy, produce and cleaning items alongside gains in meats and clothing.
• Shopping centers posted a 4.5% real year-over-year drop, their first interannual contraction since November 2024, with notable weakness in entertainment, sporting apparel and electronics.
• Payment behavior shifted away from cash and credit cards, debit card use even slipped in nominal terms, and only other electronic options such as transfers and QR payments increased.
• June nominal supermarket sales totaled 2,009,502,292 thousand pesos, large-format chains accounted for 85.4% of that amount, and payrolls reached 99,880 salaried workers.