{"id":4395,"date":"2018-11-15T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-retail-sales-hit-by-mild-autumn\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:26:55","slug":"uk-retail-sales-hit-by-mild-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-retail-sales-hit-by-mild-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"UK retail sales hit by mild autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Retail sales fell by a worse-than-expected 0.5% in October, after a mild autumn hit sales of winter clothes.<\/p>\n

Sales at household goods stores fell 3% following a particularly strong August and September, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.<\/a><\/p>\n

For the three months to October, retail sales rose 0.4% – a considerable slowdown from the 2.3% increase recorded for the three months to July.<\/p>\n

Analysts said October’s fall suggested shoppers were cutting back spending.<\/p>\n

Samuel Tombs at Pantheon Macroeconomics said the drop was the “first real sign that consumers are tightening their purse strings due to uncertainty about Brexit”. <\/p>\n

Non-food sales fell 1.3%, with a 1% decline fall in clothing sales, which he said could not be blamed on the weather.<\/p>\n