Coronavirus: Retail sales suffer “worst decline on record”

// Retail sales dropped to their lowest last month
// The decline was prompted by the coronavirus lockdown
// BRC-KPMG found a year-on-year total sales decline of 4.3% in MarchRetail sales in March have dropped to their lowest decline on record as the coronavirus pandemic took its toll on the sector across the UK.
The year-on-year total sales decline of 4.3 per cent in March was the worst ever recorded by the BRC-KPMG monthly survey.
In the first three weeks of the month, total sales rose 12 per