LONDON (Reuters) -British retail sales rose by a stronger-than-expected 1% in August and growth in July was revised up, official figures showed on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a monthly rise of 0.4% in sales volumes last month. The Office for National Statistics said sal...
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales fell by much more than expected in October, according to official data that added to other signs of a loss of momentum in the economy in the run-up to the first budget of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's new government. Sales vol...
The volume of retail sales fell in all the main sectors (food stores, non-food stores, non-store retailing and fuel) by 1.4 percent in September, making it 1.3 percent below pre-COVID-19 February 2020 levels, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday. The only sub-sector ...
LONDON, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Britain's retail sales fell by 0.6 percent in December 2019 comparing with the previous month, marking the fifth consecutive month of no growth, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Friday. The quantity bought in food stores fell by 1.3 percent in Dece...
BRITISH retail sales plunged in February as snowy weather and economic gloom kept consumers away from the shops, official data showed today. The Office for National Statistics said sales fell 1.9 percent in February,...
The inflation rate for the Retail Price Index (RPI) in the United Kingdom was 3.5 percent in December 2024, down from the previous month, when it was 3.6 percent. From 2021 onwards, prices in the UK rose rapidly, with the RPI inflation rate peaking at 14.2 percent in October 2022. The...
UK retail sales fall back in August.The article offers information on the retail sales in Great Britain in August 2012. According to the Office for National Statistics, retail sales have decreased by 0.2 percent compared with a 0.3 percent in July 2012. However, it mentions that the statistics...
While the CPIH inflation rate displayed here is the preferred index of the UK's Office of National Statistics, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is often more prominently featured in the media in general. An older index, the Retail Price Index (RPI) is also still used by the government to...
with Black Friday turning into weeks of cut-price promotions that have sliced into retailers’ profit margins. The growth of the event has led the Office for National Statistics tocast doubton the reliability of its own data on retail sales volumes, revealed last week to have fallen by 1.5 ...
The volume of UK retail sales, measured by value adjusted for inflation, dropped 0.3 per cent in February compared with the previous month, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. In the three months to February, sales were down 0.6 per cent compared to the previous period...