{"id":22366,"date":"2025-07-25T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22366\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:54:08","slug":"retail-sales-in-june-boosted-by-hot-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22366\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail sales in June boosted by hot weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sales in food stores were up 0.7% in June, the ONS said, while fuel sales rose 2.8%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The warm weather in June helped to brighten sales, with supermarket retailers reporting stronger trading and an increase in drink purchases,&#8221; said ONS senior statistician Hannah Finselbach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was also a good month for fuel sales as consumers ventured out and about in the sunshine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office said that England had its warmest June on record, and the second warmest for the UK as a whole, following two heatwaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sales in food stores were up 0.7% in June, the ONS said, while fuel sales rose 2.8%. &#8220;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-22366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}