Food sales growth fell sharply in Scotland last month and non-food sales fell back below their year-earlier level after three months of growth.
November 2009′s like-for-like sales decline was the worst since May, according to the British Retail Consortium‘s Scottish Retail Sales Monitor.
Like-for-like sales in November were 0.6% lower than in November 2008, when they had fallen 0.8%. Total sales in November were 2.8% up on a year ago.
Food sales growth was hit by lower food price inflation.
Like-for-like sales growth was slower than that in the rest of the UK, for the third month in a row. UK sales were 1.8% up on November 2008, when they had dropped 2.6%, more sharply than the 0.8% decline in Scotland.
