Food offers boost retail sales

Press Association
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Supermarket offers on food helped drive retail sales higher than expected last month, adding to signs of optimism over consumer spending.

Retail sales volumes increased 2.1% in May month-on-month - significantly ahead of economists' hopes for a 0.8% increase - as sales rebounded from an unseasonably cold April.
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