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245 _aMay retail sales slide
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490 _aRetail Week
_v27 June 2003, 5(1)
520 _aFigures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that retail sales in May 2003 were down 0.1% from April due to increases in National Insurance contributions and council tax. Retail sales increased by 0.5% in the three months to May and by 3.4% compared with the same period in 2002, the weakest annual growth rate since July 1999. ONS retail sale figures for May 2003 available at www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/rs0603.pdf.
590 _aWB
650 _aPROPERTY-COMMERCIAL PROPERTY-RETAIL PROPERTY-RETAIL PROPERTY MARKET
650 _aRETAIL SALES
690 _aECONOMIC ISSUES
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