{"id":243727,"date":"2025-07-06T22:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243727\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T22:21:12","slug":"summer-sales-begin-july-14-retailers-anticipate-turnover-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243727\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer sales begin July 14, retailers anticipate turnover boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece\u2019s summer sales season will kick off on July 14 and run through August 30, with shops also allowed to open on Sunday, July 20, in a bid to further boost shopping activity.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers are hopeful that strong consumer spending, fueled in part by high tourism, will help third-quarter turnover (excluding vehicles, food, and fuel) exceed \u20ac7 billion, a level achieved last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vassilis Korkidis, president of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry,\u00a0 expressed optimism, noting that the sales period could help ease inflationary pressures and prevent a \u201csummer inflation storm\u201d driven by rising demand.<\/p>\n<p>Still, concerns remain. According to Eurostat, inflation in Greece reached 3.6% in June 2025, up from 3.3% in May and significantly higher than the 2.5% recorded during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Date provided by ELSTAT, the Hellenic Statistical Authority, also shows that inflationary trends were visible as early as May, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising 2.5% year-on-year. Key contributors included clothing and footwear (6.6%), services (6.8%), housing (6%), transportation (2.8%), and food (2.6%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece\u2019s summer sales season will kick off on July 14 and run through August 30, with shops also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,476,246,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-243727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-inflation","11":"tag-shopping","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114808624618146015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}