{"id":84560,"date":"2023-05-26T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T10:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=84560"},"modified":"2023-05-26T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T10:10:32","slug":"uk-retail-sales-rise-more-than-expected-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/uk-retail-sales-rise-more-than-expected-in-april\/05\/26\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"UK retail sales rise more than expected in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Retail sales climbed by 0.5% after falling by 1.2% in March. This was more than the 0.3% growth predicted by experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food shop sales increased by 0.7%, while non-food store sales increased by 1%. Other retail and department store sales increased by 2.1% and 1.7%, respectively, month over month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ONS Chief Economist Grant Fitzner said: &#8220;Retail sales grew, partially rebounding from a poor weather affected March, with jewellers, sports retailers and department stores all having a good month. Despite continued high food prices, supermarkets also recovered from the fall in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;However, these were partly offset by a drop in the amount of fuel sold, despite prices also dropping.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The boost to household incomes from the larger-than-usual rises in the state pension, welfare payments and minimum wage in early April and the government\u2019s first 2023\/24 cost of living payment of \u00a3301 to welfare recipients (which was paid between 25th April and 17th May) probably played a part too,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail sales climbed by 0.5% after falling by 1.2% in March. This was more than the 0.3% growth predicted by experts. Food shop sales increased by 0.7%, while non-food store sales increased by 1%. Other retail and department store sales increased by 2.1% and 1.7%, respectively, month over month. ONS Chief Economist Grant Fitzner said: &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-84560","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\/84560","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=84560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84561,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84560\/revisions\/84561"}],"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=84560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}