{"id":50980,"date":"2021-09-17T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=50980"},"modified":"2021-09-17T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:14:29","slug":"uk-retail-sales-unexpectedly-fall-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/uk-retail-sales-unexpectedly-fall-in-august\/09\/17\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Retail Sales Unexpectedly Fall in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>British retail sales volumes fell unexpectedly last month, official data showed on Friday, the longest streak of declines since records began, although sales volumes are still above pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Office for National Statistics said sales fell 0.9 percent month-on-month in August, compared to the median forecast of economists in a Reuters poll, for an increase of 0.5 percent, falling for the fourth consecutive month after data for previous months were revised down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statistics office said that the decline in August reflected in part the decline in sales of supermarkets, with more people eating out after the easing of anti-Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales volumes are still 4.6 percent above their level in February 2020 before they were first affected by the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retail sales fell 2.8 percent month-on-month in July, which stores attributed to bad weather and the preference of some shoppers to watch England&#8217;s Euro 2020 matches that took place this month, the Office for National Statistics announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British retail sales volumes fell unexpectedly last month, official data showed on Friday, the longest streak of declines since records began, although sales volumes are still above pre-pandemic levels. The Office for National Statistics said sales fell 0.9 percent month-on-month in August, compared to the median forecast of economists in a Reuters poll, for an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7049,6994,6835],"class_list":["post-50980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-retail","tag-sales","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50981,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50980\/revisions\/50981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}