Core sales which exclude cars, petrol and building parts was also up 0.1%, having risen 0.7% in December.
There are the natural-resource barons who grabbed the country's oil, gas and mineral riches after the collapse of communism; there are managers adroit at siphoning off their firm's revenues for personal gain; there are monopolists and cartel-mongers, who use connections to squash competition, and thus make such businesses as selling petrol or building materials fantastically lucrative.
The risks of pouring petrol inside a building and setting it alight must have been obvious.
Youths set fire to several cars and through petrol bombs at buildings, briefly setting the roof of one alight, as mounted police and officers in full riot gear charged the groups of rioters gathered behind a burning wreck.
They stopped fire engines from getting through, and hurled petrol bombs at the building to speed the blaze.
Drive through the wasteland of Rikuzentakata, and satellite-navigation screens eerily show where every house, petrol station and municipal building formerly stood.
McLendon killed his mother at the home they shared in Kinston, then shot her four dogs in the head, piled their bodies on a sofa, doused the building in petrol, lit a match, and drove off.
Detectives found the pair had earlier inadvertently filmed themselves on a CCTV system at Harness's home, bringing petrol into the house, building the bombs and leaving with them.
They'll be able to slosh your warm body with petrol and light the building on fire.
In the nearest main town of Arawa, where I stayed, burned-out buildings and petrol stations still stand, and drunk youth loiter in parks.
