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Aug 20, 2021, 6 tweets

Our latest data show retail sales fell by an estimated 2.5% in July 2021 compared with June 2021.

This is 5.8% higher than their pre-pandemic February 2020 levels ow.ly/QquO50FUEGs

Commenting on today’s retail sales figures for July, Deputy National Statistician for Economic Statistics Jonathan Athow @jathers_ONS said: (1/3)

.@jathers_ONS continued: (2/3)

.@jathers_ONS added: (3/3)

Non-food stores reported a fall of 4.4% in sales volumes in July 2021 compared with June 2021.

This was driven by a fall of 10.1% in “other non-food stores”, such as second-hand goods stores and computer and telecoms equipment stores ow.ly/fXRy50FUEMV

The proportion of retail sales online increased to 27.9% in July from 27.1% in June.

This remains substantially higher than the pre-pandemic proportion of online retail spending in February 2020 (19.8%) ow.ly/jiSa50FUEOT

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