Retailers suffer post-Easter sales slowdown

British Retail Consortium says like-for-like figures fell 2.4% despite leap in sales of summer clothing and tanning products during sunniest April on record

Demand for summer clothes and tanning products during the sunniest April on record were not enough to stem a drop in retail sales last month as retailers suffered a post-Easter slowdown.

Industry figures show that sales fell 2.4% on a like-for-like basis from April 2014, the weakest performance for three years.