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Falling wages aren’t stopping shoppers from hitting the high street

22 September 2023

7:27 PM

22 September 2023

7:27 PM

It looks like a case of recession postponed – again. Figures from the Office for National Statistics this morning show that retail sales volumes were up 0.4 per cent in August. These figures followed a shock fall of 1.2 per cent in July reported last month (and even this has been revised downwards to a fall of 1.1

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