South African retail sales fall 0.6% year on year in September

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FILE PHOTO: A shopper walks to a Woolworths store in Johannesburg

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African retail sales fell 0.6% year on year in September after rising by a revised 2.1% in August, Statistics South Africa figures showed on Wednesday.

On a month-on-month basis, sales were up 0.1%.

Sales in the three months to the end of September were up 3.3% compared with the same period last year, the statistics agency said.

(Reporting by Anait Miridzhanian; Editing by Alexander Winning)

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