Online sales fell 5.6 per cent in April as shoppers returned to high street retailers in their droves dealing what analysts are calling a “body blow” to the ecommerce sector.
According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) retail sales jumped 9.2 per cent on March and a whopping 43 per cent compared to April 2020, the first month of trading spent in National lockdown.
While online-only retailers were hailed as the biggest winners of the pandemic, seeing sales up 56 per cent year-on-year, April saw the first major drop in online retail spend signalling that the online sales boom could soon peter out.
