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UK retail income fell by 0.9% betwixt February and March with shops blaming bedewed upwind for less shoppers.
Non-food retailers, successful particular, said that rainfall impacted income with section stores and covering shops reporting a driblet successful volumes.
It was the sixth wettest March connected grounds since 1836, according to the Met Office.
The retail figures were worse than expected and came aft a emergence successful income the period before.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) besides said that income astatine nutrient shops besides fell, down 0.7%, pursuing shortages of immoderate products.
Many supermarkets imposed limits connected caller nutrient specified arsenic tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers due to the fact that of mediocre upwind successful areas including confederate Spain and North Africa.
The ONS said that "26% of adults experienced shortages of indispensable nutrient items that were needed connected a regular basis" for overmuch of March. That was an summation of the 18% who reported akin problems successful February.
The magnitude of nutrient that radical bought past period is 3% beneath pre-pandemic levels successful February 2020, which retailers blamed connected the accrued outgo of surviving and higher prices.
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