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December offers ray of sunlight after drab quarter for retail sales

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Food store sales rose slightly by 0.2% in December, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics. The December figure was less than the overall monthly retail sales improvement of 0.4%, but retail figures for the last quarter overall were mostly down.…

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