Grocery spend, automation, healthy eating: 5 killer stats to start your week

1. Online retail sales experience lowest ever July growthOnline retail sales growth slowed to 4.4% in July compared to a year ago, and fell by 5.7% compared to the previous month. This was the lowest ever July year on year sales increase, with the figure coming in well below the three- six-, and 12-month averages.
Clothing sales saw growth of 4.5%, but failed to match June’s high of 15.7%. After recording its strongest performance of the year in June, when sales were up 31.2%, menswear sa