High inflation effectively erased any real increase in retail sales last month, but Scots sprucing up their homes and gardens in time for summer helped push the number into positive territory.
In April, sales were 9.1% higher than the same month last year, the Scottish Retail Consortium stated, but when inflation was taken into account, the figure slumped to just a 0.3% year-on-year increase.
David Lonsdale, the consortium’s director, said that “Easter provided a slender, but nonetheless welcome, uplift in retail sales” last month.
