Online sales flat in month before coronavirus crisis hitting UK

// In the month before the coronavirus crisis, online retail sales declined 0.4% year-on-year
// Despite the surprising upturn in late 2019, February’s result continues the weak growth seen in January
// Month-on-month online sales down 0.7%In the month before the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic and plunged global markets into crisis, the UK’s string of winter storms failed to stimulate online retail sales.
For the month of February, online sales limped in with a margina