{"id":30387,"date":"2025-09-19T06:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30387\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T06:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:44:06","slug":"uk-retail-sales-rise-by-0-5-in-august-ons-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30387\/","title":{"rendered":"UK retail sales rise by 0.5% in August, ONS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British retail sales rose by 0.5% in August from July, official figures showed today.<\/p>\n<p>A Reuters poll of economists had mostly expected that retail sales volumes would increase by 0.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Many households are feeling the squeeze from inflation which stood at 3.8% last month with food prices rising faster.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, market research firm GfK said consumer confidence dipped in September and the prospect of tax increases in finance minister Rachel Reeves&#8217; budget in November threatened to damage confidence levels further.<\/p>\n<p>Recent updates from big UK retailers, including Primark owner Associated British Foods and discount supermarket Aldi UK, have also shown concerns that speculation about tax rises could hit consumer spending.<\/p>\n<p>Fashion retailer Next said yesterday it expected its second-half sales growth to slow, partly blaming a weakening jobs market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British retail sales rose by 0.5% in August from July, official figures showed today. A Reuters poll of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[72,61,60,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-30387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}