{"id":7569,"date":"2019-02-15T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T09:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-retail-sales-bounce-back-in-january\/"},"modified":"2019-02-15T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T09:56:02","slug":"uk-retail-sales-bounce-back-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-retail-sales-bounce-back-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"UK retail sales bounce back in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"A shopper stands in the door of a shop advertising sale discounts on onOxford Street in London on December 13, 2018 less than two weeks before Christmas.\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/12127\/production\/_105232047_xmasgettyimages-1072661674.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Retail sales bounced back sharply in January, rising by 1% on the previous month, official figures showed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/businessindustryandtrade\/retailindustry\/bulletins\/retailsales\/january2019\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the amount of goods<\/a> sold rose by 1%, after falling by 0.7% in December, with discounts in clothing helping to boost sales. <\/p>\n<p>Compared with a year ago, retail sales were 4.2% higher in January.<\/p>\n<p>That was the biggest annual rise since December 2016. The figures beat most economists&#8217; expectations. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clothing stores saw strong sales, luring consumers with price reductions, with food sales also growing after a slight dip after Christmas,&#8221; said ONS statistician Rhian Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>The ONS said clothing prices fell by the most since August 2016. <\/p>\n<p>The figures suggest that consumer spending may have picked up again after a lull following the summer&#8217;s World Cup. <\/p>\n<p>They echo those from the British Retail Consortium, which showed shops saw their fastest sales growth in seven months.<\/p>\n<p>Other recent figures showed wages were picking up after years of stagnation. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-47250753\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Retail sales bounced back sharply in January, rising by 1% on the previous month, official figures showed. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the amount of goods sold rose by 1%, after falling by 0.7% in December, with discounts in clothing helping to boost sales. Compared with a year ago, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}