Retail sales fall
8:30am Tuesday 15th July 2008
HIGH street retailers failed to hold on to a sales lift last month as tighter household budgets and changeable weather kept shoppers away.
The British Retail Consortium said like-for-like sales fell 0.4 per cent last month compared to a year ago - a reversal of the 1.4 per cent boost seen during what was the warmest May on record.
Clothing and footwear sales were the biggest losers last month, with furniture and homewares slipping further below previous year levels.
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