The retail value of furniture and lighting sales plunged in July.
Sales in July reached £1,040,385,000 in England, Scotland and Wales according to ONS data, but this was 22.48% lower than June 2024 and 18.16% lower than July 2023.
The performance is the lowest since February 2021 (£886,977,000): when the country was in the second month of the third lockdown, and a month before non-essential retail reopened and in effect lower than when store did reopen thanks to inflation (£1,095,646,000).
The figures are not seasonally adjusted, do not take inflation into account and are subject to revision.
