date:Jul 16, 2014
this year from their record low of 0.5 per cent.
Although second quarter sales were encouraging overall, with a rise of 2.6 per cent, this figure was bolstered by the fact that Easter fell in the second quarter this year and the first quarter in 2013.
Food sales for the second quarter fell by 2 per cent on the year and non-food sales rose by 3.6 per cent. Helen Dickinson, director general of the BRC, said that although food sales are still in decline the lower pricing policies we have witnesse