‘Dreadful numbers’ as BRC reports worst December on record

13th January | sales | Furniture retailers were among the hardest hit as the British Retail Consortium reported the worst December sales figures in the BRC Retail Sales Monitor’s 14 year history.

Like for like sales fell 3.3% year on year with food and online retailing the only categories to emerge with any credit.

BRC director general Stephen Robertson described the results as a ‘truly dreadful’ set of numbers.

The BRC represents a range of retailers, although the overwhelming majority are large multi-shop chain stores and department store retailers.