In accordance with information from the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics right now (22 November), non-food shops gross sales volumes fell on the month, as retailers mentioned uncertainty and low shopper confidence over this 12 months’s Autumn Funds impacted gross sales.
The biggest decline in retail sector volumes got here from textile clothes and footwear shops, with gross sales falling by 3.1% from a month prior. Equally, non-food shops gross sales recorded a 1.4% decline in gross sales in October, following a 2.3% rise in September.
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Total gross sales volumes rose…
