{"id":1320973,"date":"2025-11-15T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/in-russia-sales-of-non-food-products-are-falling-due-to-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:18:16","slug":"in-russia-sales-of-non-food-products-are-falling-due-to-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/in-russia-sales-of-non-food-products-are-falling-due-to-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"In Russia, sales of non-food products are falling due to sanctions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"371\"><strong>The non-food retail sector in Russia continues to collapse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"371\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/CenterCounteringDisinformation\/16221\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">According<\/a> to the Center for Countering Disinformation, citing data from Russia&#8217;s Sberbank, sales in this segment have been declining for the seventh consecutive quarter.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"373\" data-end=\"545\"> According to the results of the third quarter of 2025, sales volumes fell by an average of 7% compared to the same period last year, and in some regions the decline reached 25%.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"547\" data-end=\"716\"> Clothing and electronics stores have been hit hardest. Due to a sharp drop in demand and a buildup of unsold inventory, retailers are closing en masse across the country.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"718\" data-end=\"767\"> The CPI notes that the key reasons for the decline are: <\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"769\" data-end=\"942\"><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"769\" data-end=\"796\">\n<p data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"796\"> economic cooling;<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"860\">\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"860\"> the high key rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which makes loans more expensive;<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"861\" data-end=\"904\">\n<p data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"904\"> transition of the population to a savings model;<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"905\" data-end=\"942\">\n<p data-start=\"907\" data-end=\"942\"> anticipation of the latest taxes and fees.<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"944\" data-end=\"1160\"> At the same time, a decline in food consumption in physical terms is observed, indicating a real decline in citizens&#8217; well-being\u2014despite the Kremlin&#8217;s official statements about an alleged increase in income.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1328\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The Center for Political Studies emphasized: &#8220;The Russian economy is entering a phase of systemic weakening, which the authorities can no longer conceal by manipulating income growth in statistics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-zaprovadyv-try-novi-pakety-sanktsiy-khto-potrapyv-pid-obmezhennia\/\">Zelenskyy signed a decree introducing three packages of sanctions<\/a> against individuals assisting Russia.<\/p>\n<p> Let us recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yevrokomisiia-zatverdyla-novyy-paket-sanktsiy-proty-rf\/\">the European Commission officially approved the new, 19th package of sanctions<\/a> against the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-food retail sector in Russia continues to collapse. According to the Center for Countering Disinformation, citing data from Russia&#8217;s Sberbank, sales in this segment have been declining for the seventh consecutive quarter. According to the results of the third quarter of 2025, sales volumes fell by an average of 7% compared to the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1232459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1320973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}