Sector Overview: European Retail — Germany’s Shoppers Cut Back

Key Points

Each of our Sector Overview reports provides an essential briefing on a sector or market. In European retailing:

• U.K. retail demand has proved solid, but the impact of Brexit remains a big unknown.
• German retail sales growth has been weak as consumer prices inflation has accelerated and global uncertainty has increased.
• In France, consumer confidence has fallen, yet retail sales have proved robust.