{"id":64017,"date":"2025-08-12T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64017\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:04:12","slug":"uk-retail-sales-rise-in-july-driven-by-warm-weather-and-higher-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64017\/","title":{"rendered":"UK retail sales rise in July, driven by warm weather and higher food prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"537\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\">UK consumer spending picked up in July, helped by hot weather early in the month (the UK Met Office said July was the UK\u2019s fifth-warmest on record.) that boosted clothing sales, though momentum faded later as temperatures cooled. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"537\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\">The British Retail Consortium reported total sales up 2.5% year-on-year, slowing from June\u2019s 3.1% gain<\/p>\n<p>like-for-like sales rose 1.8%Barclays data showed overall spending up 1.4%, rebounding from a 0.1% fall in June.food sales rose 3.9% on the year, reflecting both strong early-month demand and higher pricesclothing sales jumped 4.2% \u2014 their fastest pace since September 2024. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"1121\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\">Economists are watching to see if households will draw on savings to sustain spending as job losses mount and wage growth slows. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"1121\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\"> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"1121\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\">GBP is little changed circa 1.3434<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK consumer spending picked up in July, helped by hot weather early in the month (the UK Met&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,41123],"class_list":["post-64017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-uk-sconsuemr-spending-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}