Summary: Retail sales up 0.2% in February, in line with expectations; would imply contraction in retail volumes; conceals material underlying weakening in sales; largest influence on result from food. Growth figures of domestic retail sales spent most of the 2010s at levels below the post-1992 average. While economic conditions had been generally favourable, wage growth and inflation rates were low. Expenditures on goods then jumped in the early stages of...