Data: How to understand the December drop in retail sales

Empty Christmas shopping centre

The story many were telling about the performance of the retail sector over Christmas got a bit complicated last week as the ONS released figures suggesting sales volumes were down month-on-month

ONS statisticians calculated a 0.3% drop in seasonally adjusted sales volumes between November and December. There were several reasons why that was alarming.

 

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