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Retail sales hold up in August – despite riots
Last month’s riots in English cities had little impact on retail sales, which edged down 0.6% like-for-like during August. Total sales advanced 1.5% over the month, the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor showed, although non-food categories continued to suffer during continued tough trading conditions.
Food sales growth was similar in August to July, the BRC reported, but non-food sales were below their year-earlier level. Footwear suffered its worst sales fall since May 2009 and clothing sales were just below the level achieved a year ago. Online, telephone and mail order sales rose 12.6% in the month – the best performance since April. On a weighted three-month basis food like-for-likes rose 1.4% and non-food fell 1.5%, giving a decline across all categories of 0.2%.
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