UK data: BRC January like for like sales +8.1% y/y (prior +0.6%)

British Retail Consortium data for January 2022:Total sales +11.9% in January (compared with the same month last year)the biggest increase since May 2021 Like for like sales +8.1% (like-for-like sales data strips out the impact of changes in store size)—And, from Barclaycard:Consumer spending 7.4