26. Inventories

XLS

€ million	30/9/2017	30/9/2018
Food merchandise	1,975	1,517
Non-food merchandise	1,071	591
	3,046	2,108

Inventories declined by €938 million from €3,046 million to €2,108 million.

The previous year’s figures include €765 million attributable to the hypermarket business to be disposed of. Negative currency effects mainly resulting from the development of the Turkish lira (€−34 million), the Russian rouble (€−31 million) and the Indian rupee (€−4 million) reduced the inventory by a further €76 million.

Inventories include impairments in the amount of €70 million (30/9/2017: €102 million; this includes €35 million from the hypermarket business to be disposed of). The inventories are subject to the customary or statutory retention of title.