The British Retail Consortium has called on the government to step in and help the retail sector through an “unprecedented period” of technological transformation as like-for-like sales in August fell by 0.5 per cent compared with a year earlier.
Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive, said that consumer demand had fallen amid uncertainty, with online shopping taking a bigger share.
Total reported sales, rather than like-for-like, were flat at 0 per cent.
