The British Retail Consortium survey shows the value of UK retail sales in January was up just 2.1% on the same month last year. This is a sharp slowdown from a year-on-year pace of increase of 4.1% in December which appears to be a blip in a generally weak run of sales figures.
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Year-on-year growth slows
YEAR-on-year growth in UK retail sales value last month was the second-weakest for any January since comparable records began in 1995, an industry survey reveals today.
