Increase In Retail Sales

The volume of seasonally adjusted retail sales was up by 2.6% in April on April 2008. Food stores were up 1.5, the largest increase for a year, while non-food stores which includes many different groupings, showed mixed results but increased 2.8% overall. The total retail sales volume in three months to April was 0.7% higher than last year. Average weekly value of internet retail sales from the March report were about £172 million, 3.4 percent of retail sales for March.