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Confident shoppers Hoover up vacuums ahead of Brussels’ ban
THE UK recovery received a fresh boost from confident consumers splashing out in August, official figures showed yesterday.
Retail sales were up 3.9 per cent on the year in August, driven by sales of luxury goods and powerful vacuum cleaners that are being banned by the European Union.
There was a six per cent uptake in purchases of electrical goods with retailers pointing to the recent EU ruling which prohibits the sale of cleaners that operate on anything above 1600W.
Furniture sales also rocketed, jumping 23.4 per cent year on year and fuelling a 12.7 per cent increase in sales at household goods stores.