UK retail sales plummet in December as Omicron sweeps nation

Six times greater than predicted

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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UK retail sales plummeted in December, with the amount of goods sold in stores and online falling 3.7% from November, compared to a decrease of just 0.6% predicted by economists.

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