Festive spending helps boost retail sales, figures show
dailyrecord.co.ukChristmas shopping and Black Friday helped boost sales last month, giving retailers a “smidgen of hope”, according to the latest figures.
Total sales in Scotland last month increased by 8 per cent compared with November 2021, when they had grown 2.6 per cent, the SRC-KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor showed.Adjusted for inflation, the year-on-year change was 0.6 per cent.
On a like-for-like basis Scottish sales increased by 5.5 per cent compared with November 2021, when they had increased by 1.8 per cent.
Ewan MacDonald Russell, deputy head of the Scottish Retail Consortium, said: “There was a small but welcome boost to Scottish retail sales in November as shoppers took advantage of discounts to belatedly begin their Christmas shopping.“Sales rose by 0.6 per cent in real terms as consumers took advantage of the plethora of deals around Black Friday.
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