The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said like-for-like retail sales were up 2.7% on the previous year.
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The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said Christmas spending in shops this year was "acceptable but not exceptional".
The number of shoppers on UK High Streets fell last month, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
Richard Dodd, from the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said there were a "good number of sensible ideas" in the report.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said its figures showed that August had the slowest sales growth they had seen all year.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said the number of people visiting shops last month was 5.2% lower than a year ago.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said 573 shops closed, even before the recent big-name failures of HMV, Jessops, Comet and Blockbuster.
Retail sales fell 0.4% on a like-for-like basis from the same month last year, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
Snow and low temperatures caused a 3.8% drop in shopper numbers compared with March last year, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.
Meanwhile, new tests conducted on beef retail products revealed no new cases of horsemeat adulteration, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said.
According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), 11.2 per cent of all shops on high streets and in shopping centres are vacant.
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Snow and low temperatures caused a 3.8% drop in footfall in Scottish shops compared to March last year, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.
This view echoes an earlier warning from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) that seasonal shopping will not pick up until the last 10 to 14 days before Christmas.
For instance, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said that like-for-like retail sales in January rose 1.9% compared with January 2012 - the biggest rise in more than a year.
However, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) was less optimistic.
And their professed hope looks increasingly disingenuous to environmentalists since the British Retail Consortium (BRC) is now stating publicly that the government will have to legislate if it wants to cut the use of bags in England.
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