Higher food prices were behind a 1.4% on-year rise in retail sales in July, figures from the British Retail Consortium and KPMG show.
Growth was underpinned by food sales alone, BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said. Non-food sales relapsed into negative territory as competition heats up over a shrinking pool of discretionary consumer spending power, she said.
Spending on food rose by 3.4% on the year in the three months to July, compared with a 0.4% fall in spending on other items.
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