ONS retail sales figures - Barclays comment

23 May 2012 13:18 GMT

Richard Lowe, Head of Retail & Wholesale at Barclays, comments on today's ONS retail sales figures:

“April was the wettest since records began, which was a blow for the high street but, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee is almost upon us and the weather has begun to improve so sales should start to pick up.

“When it comes to the British weather there is no such thing as a perfect year but typically, over the course of a twelve-month period, bouts of bad weather will be evened out by brighter spells - smoothing sales in the process”.


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