UK retail sales grow 6%
Economy March 16th, 2010
UK retail sales grew 6% in December last year driven by a rise in the number of products, such as food.
Data from the British Retail Consortium and KPMG showed sales increases for food products in the October to December 2009 reached 4.4%. Sales in December is the highest figure since June last year.
Sales spike also occurred in the product category nonmakanan. Winter trigger the growth of purchases of clothing and footwear products.
The increase also occurred in other household products that consumers hunted for Christmas.
Sales outside of retail store network, such as ordering via the Internet and telephone is also seen increases for products other than food, jumped to 26.5%. Snow stopped herself buyers to visit the store.
As a result many consumers who choose to order the desired products without ever leaving home. In the last month, sales outside of retail stores for nonmakanan products grew by 16.9%.
Sharon Hardiman, Head of Non-Store Retailing British Retail Consortium, said that the current sales outside the store contributed only 4% of total retail sales.
