{"id":14539,"date":"2019-08-06T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=14539"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:30:20","slug":"uk-retailers-experience-worst-july-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/uk-retailers-experience-worst-july-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"UK retailers experience worst July on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UK retailers have recorded the worst month for sales in July since records began. Total sales increased by 0.3% in July compared to 1.6% in July last year.\u00a0July saw record temperatures which would normally expect bigger sales of items that are summer clothes but the demand was not as big as normal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-14541\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1011477469.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1011477469.jpg 1955w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1011477469-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1011477469-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1011477469-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_1011477469-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said:<\/strong> &#8220;While retailers will welcome the return to growth, it has nonetheless been a punishing few months for the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The combination of slow real wage growth and Brexit uncertainty has left consumer spending languishing with the 12-month average total sales falling to a new low of just 0.5%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Whereas last year&#8217;s glorious sunshine and World Cup Finals led to strong consumer demand over the summer, this year has been weak in comparison, with both June and July showing the lowest sales on record for their respective months.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Barclaycard processes nearly half of credit and debit card transactions, they said that British families were limiting their spending money on essential items. Sales of essential items such as spending in supermarkets and on petrol fell by 0.9%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Esme Harwood, a director of Barclaycard, said<\/strong>: \u201cSpending has remained relatively subdued over the past few months, with an underlying uncertainty about the wider economic and political landscape causing many to hold off making purchases on bigger ticket items.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Job loss fears have increased to the highest in two years. This comes after many big companies are cutting jobs to try and save businesses financially.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Latest News'>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"JdIFbgqta3\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/is-the-high-street-failing\/\">Is the high street failing?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Is the high street failing?&#8221; &#8212; Latest News\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/is-the-high-street-failing\/embed\/#?secret=JdIFbgqta3\" data-secret=\"JdIFbgqta3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK retailers have recorded the worst month for sales in July since records began. Total sales increased by 0.3% in July compared to 1.6% in July last year.\u00a0July saw record temperatures which would normally expect bigger sales of items that are summer clothes but the demand was not as big as normal.\u00a0 Helen Dickinson, chief&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":14540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5],"tags":[50,101,1530,43],"class_list":["post-14539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-uk-news","tag-high-street","tag-uk","tag-uk-high-street","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14542,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions\/14542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}