Biggest Ever Recorded Quarterly Jump in UK Retail Sales: Official Report

A man wearing a protective face mask walks past the front entrance of John Lewis department store on Oxford Street in central London on the afternoon of March 21, 2020. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images

The UK has seen the biggest ever recorded jump in quarterly retail sales as the sector’s struggle to withstand the onslaught of the CCP virus continues and new restrictions to slow its spread come into force.

The jump of 17.4 percent in retail sales in the three months from July to September meant they had picked up from the “record-low levels experienced earlier in the year,” the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported on Friday.