FILE PHOTO: An employee walks inside a Walmart store in Mexico City, Mexico March 28, 2019. Picture taken March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Walmart de Mexico, Mexico’s biggest retailer, said on Wednesday that sales at stores open for more than a year in Mexico rose 2.3% in October compared with the same month last year.

Walmex, as the company is known, said total sales in Mexico increased 3.5% in October.