Coronavirus: May ‘another month of struggle for retail’
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May was another tough month for retail as coronavirus lockdown measures continued, a trade body says.
Total UK sales fell by 5.9% compared with the previous year, dragged down by temporary shop closures, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.
Online sales growth rose fifteenfold to 60.2%, but failed to offset this drop.
Separately, Barclaycard figures suggested…