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Helen Dickinson, head of KPMG retail, said: "we hold our breath as to whether the next review of public spending is derailing current retail extra expenses. Photo: Paul Grover

Like-for-like sales, broadband on the effect of the new area of the workshop, was increased by 0 5pc compared to the previous year to growth 1pc in August on RBC KPMG retail sales monitor.

That growth has come primarily from the sale of food, but improvement was driven in part by the increase in food prices.

With sales of non-food fell on a year for the first time since the mid-2009.

"With VAT higher than it was last year, and grow the value of sales, it is a worse performance seems," said Stephen Robertson, BRC Director - General. "" """We had now six straight months of low growth thanks to stubbornly low consumer confidence and concerns about the future."

There was little evidence of consumers advancing major purchases of the year next to avoid the impact of the increase in VAT in January.

Retailers hope such a trend could provide a boost to the end of the year, but the BRC said large purchases have been particularly affected by uncertainty of consumers in the future.

Furniture and floor coverings remained productive worst sector pursuant to dark recent data pointing to a stagnation of the housing market.

Helen Dickinson, head of KPMG retail, said: "hold us our breath as to whether the next review of public spending is derailing current retail supplementary estimates - trust is fragile.

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