JOHANNESBURG, March 15 (Reuters) – South African retail sales fell 0.8% year on year in January after falling by a revised 0.5% in December, Statistics South Africa figures showed on Wednesday.
On a month-on-month basis, sales increased 1.5%.
Sales in the three months to the end of January were down 0.2% compared with the same period last year, the statistics agency said.
Reporting by Anait Miridzhanian
Editing by Alexander Winning
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