British Retail Consortium (BRC) data:
Like for like sales -0.5% y/y in June (Like-for-like sales data strips out the impact of changes in store size.)
- prior +0.4% in May
total sales -0.2% y/y in June
- prior +0.7%
Data also from Barclays:
- spending on its credit and debit cards fell by 0.6% y/y June
- first drop since February 2021, cold weather cited
