High Street Sales Hit Three-Year Low
The High Street suffered its worst performance for three years in April as retail sales fell for the second month in a row.
Clothing and footwear stores were worst hit as like-for-like sales fell 1.5%, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
This followed a 1.6% drop in sales in March - and the BRC believes the trend is likely to continue.
BRC Director-general Stephen Robertson said higher fuel and utility bills were partly to blame.
They were “eating away at people’s spare cash” and shoppers were putting food before other items.
“Retailers will look to the recent sunny weather to provide some boost, ” said Mr Robertson.
“But with the economic fundamentals remaining weak, there seems no reason for these tough trading conditions to improve soon.”
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