UK warm weather boosts online sales but high street feels chill
by Richard Partington Economics correspondent from Economics | The Guardian on (#4FSFC)
Clothing sales, a sunny February and web promotions drive fastest online growth
British shoppers have notched up the fastest quarterly growth in online retail sales on record, in the latest sign of the shifting trends fuelling the decline of the high street.
The Office for National Statistics said the amount of goods sold outside of bricks-and-mortar stores increased by 9.4% in the three months to April, the strongest growth of any quarter since comparable records began in June 1988.
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