In line with the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics, retail gross sales volumes elevated by 2.9% in Might, up from 1.8% recorded a month earlier than (revised from 2.3%).
Over the 12 months to Might, gross sales rose by 1.3%, nevertheless, they remained 0.5% beneath their pre-COVID ranges in February 2020.
The biggest month-to-month enhance got here from non-store gross sales – comprising principally on-line retailers, but additionally stalls and markets – which rose by 5.9%, totally on the again of robust clothes and different non-food gross sales. Textile, clothes and footwear retailers got here second, registering a 5.4% enhance from the earlier month, observe…
