{"id":28393,"date":"2013-02-15T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T09:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/sales-volumes-rebound-despite-snow-043410506.html"},"modified":"2013-02-15T10:50:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T09:50:12","slug":"shock-as-retail-sales-fall-0-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/shock-as-retail-sales-fall-0-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock as retail sales fall 0.6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">There was further gloom on the UK high street as figures revealed an unexpected fall in sales last month after retailers suffered a snow-hit start to the year.<\/p>\n<p>Retail sales volumes fell 0.6% between December and January, in stark contrast to predictions that sales would rebound, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.<\/p>\n<p>The ONS said the icy conditions hit many smaller food shops, with some forced to close as snow blanketed parts of Britain, pushing food sales volumes down 1.6%.<\/p>\n<p>The figures will reignite fears that the UK economy is on course for a triple-dip recession after the first estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) in the final three months of last year showed the economy contracted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was further gloom on the UK high street as figures revealed an unexpected fall in sales last month after retailers suffered a snow-hit start to the year.<br \/>\nRetail sales volumes fell 0.6% between December and January, in stark contrast to predictio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}