Drop in retail sales pushes sector to worst month since the pandemic | Daily Mail Online

The UK's retailers saw their sales levels unexpectedly drop last month, pushing them to the lowest since February 2021 when there were still Covid-19 restrictions in place, official data suggested.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that retail sales volumes dipped 0.3% in October. The statisticians also revised September's fall from 0.9% to 1.1%.Analysts had expected a rise of 0.4% in October, according to a consensus estimate supplied by Pantheon Macroeconomics.