{"id":208930,"date":"2019-02-05T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=208930"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:38:20","slug":"supermarket-sales-grew-by-2-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/supermarket-sales-grew-by-2-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermarket sales grew by 2% in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazilian supermarket sector grew by 2.07% in 2018 compared to the previous year. According to data published this Tuesday (5) by the Brazilian Supermarket Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abrasnet.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABRAS<\/a>, acronym in Portuguese), the accumulated result in 2018 was below the 3% estimate made in the beginning of last year, revised down to 2.53% in July.<\/p>\n<p>ABRAS president Jo\u00e3o Sanzovo Neto said that 2018 couldn\u2019t stand more expressive growths, as the supermarket sector expected. \u201cWe started the year well but were surprised by the truck drivers\u2019 strike at the end of May, impacting both fuel and food prices because of the shortages. Without these factors, we would probably have achieved better results.<\/p>\n<p>Sanzovo also highlighted the lack of confidence amongst consumers following the crisis, which led to people to rethink their expenses. \u201cThere was also the influence of uncertainties in the political scenario caused by the election year. Nevertheless, growing 2% in this scenario is very positive, and was our best result since 2015,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the expectations for this year are better, specially after the definition of the new government. \u201cWe are optimistic and hopeful that 2019 will be better than 2018. Financial market forecasts are positive, with interests and inflation controlled. The confidence amongst entrepreneurships remains high, as we\u2019ve seen in our last survey, and considering this scenario, we projected a growth rate of about 3% in sales for this year,\u201d he highlighted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-208928\">T\u00e2nia R\u00eago\/Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth was below the expected by the Brazilian Supermarket Association (ABRAS). For 2019, the expectation is a 3% increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":208928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[2573,233,2412,2585,34968],"class_list":{"0":"post-208930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-abras","9":"tag-retail","10":"tag-sales","11":"tag-supermarkets","12":"tag-varejo-en-3"},"wps_subtitle":"Growth was below the expected by the Brazilian Supermarket Association (ABRAS). For 2019, the expectation is a 3% increase.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}