Summary: Retail sales down 3.9% in December; fall considerably greater one than expected; figures affected by Black Friday/Cyber week sales; suggests reduced discretionary spending by households; largest influence on result from household goods. 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...