Online retail sales value growth rate (monthly)
RecordSTO-S60E32Y1JG-AWHX1FTP7J-X8KD0H
United Kingdom · August 2026
Online retail sales value growth rate in the United Kingdom was 2.5% in August 2026 (ONS).
- Publisher
- ONS
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Online retail values
- Retrieved
- 23 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Within the monthly series, online sales values rose by 2.5% over the month to August 2026, up from a fall of 4.2% in July, and were 8.9% higher compared with August 2025.
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APA
Office for National Statistics. (2026). Retail sales, Great Britain. Retrieved September 23, 2026, from https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/bulletins/retailsales/august2026. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_S60E32Y1JGAWHX1FTP7JX8KD0H
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- Office for National Statistics. "Retail sales, Great Britain." 2026, https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/bulletins/retailsales/august2026. Accessed 23 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_S60E32Y1JGAWHX1FTP7JX8KD0H.
- Chicago
- Office for National Statistics. "Retail sales, Great Britain." 2026. https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/bulletins/retailsales/august2026. Accessed September 23, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_S60E32Y1JGAWHX1FTP7JX8KD0H.
- BibTeX
- @misc{ons2026onlinex8kd0h, author = {{Office for National Statistics}}, title = {Retail sales, Great Britain}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_S60E32Y1JGAWHX1FTP7JX8KD0H}, note = {Original source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/bulletins/retailsales/august2026. Accessed September 23, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Retail sales, Great Britain
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Online retail values
- Retrieved
- 23 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_S60E32Y1JGAWHX1FTP7JX8KD0H