Office for National Statistics · 23 October 2026
UK retail sales figures for September 2026: what the ONS reported
The ONS reported that Retail sales volume growth (Great Britain) was 0.8% for September 2026, compared with 2.7% for August 2026. A year earlier, for September 2025, it was 1.8%.
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How this page is made: it was written automatically from the ONS's published series on the morning of the release, using fixed sentences that repeat the figures and nothing else. The figure pages update by themselves after that; this page keeps the figures as they were published that day. Every value of Retail sales volume growth (Great Britain) since records began. To report an error, send a correction request.