Retail sales, Great Britain: June 2025

Retail sales volumes (quantity bought) are estimated to have risen by 0.9% in June 2025, following a fall of 2.8% in May 2025 (revised down from a fall of 2.7% in our last bulletin).

Food store sales rose following a fall in May 2025, with retailers reporting the warm weather had a positive effect.

More broadly, sales volumes rose by 0.2% in Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2025 when compared with Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2025.

Sales volumes rose by 0.9% during June 2025, following a 2.8% fall in May. Sales volumes rose by 1.7% over the year to June 2025.

Volumes were down by 1.6%, compared with their pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic level in February 2020.

More broadly, there was a 0.2% rise across the three months to June 2025 (Quarter 2), when compared with the three months to March 2025 (Quarter 1). There was a 1.8% rise compared with the same period last year. These data are available in our Retail Sales Index dataset.

Food stores sales volumes rose by 0.7% in June 2025, following a 5.4% fall in May. This rise was mainly because of improved sales volumes in supermarkets, with some retailer comments mentioning increased sales of drinks because of the warm weather.

Automotive fuel volumes rose by 2.8% on the month, the largest monthly rise since May 2024, with retailers also mentioning the impact of good weather.

Non-store retailer's sales volumes, which mainly includes online retailers, rose by 1.7% in June 2025, putting sales volumes at their highest level since February 2022. Retailers suggested that promotions and the good weather contributed.

Non-food stores sales volumes - the total of department, clothing, household and other non-food stores - rose marginally by 0.2% over the month. Department stores and clothing retailers rose on the month with mention of promotions and good weather. These were partly offset by falls in household goods stores (such as furniture stores) and other non-food retailers (such as those selling second hand goods, which includes auction houses). Comments from retailers attributed these falls to lower footfall.

The Met Office climate summaries reported that England had its warmest June on record, and the second warmest for the UK as a whole.

The amount spent online, known as "online spending values", rose by 2.3% over the month to June 2025, and by 4.5% when comparing June 2025 with June 2024. More broadly, sales values rose by 3.3% when comparing the three months to June 2025 (Quarter 2) with the three months to March 2025 (Quarter 1).

Total spend - the sum of in-store and online sales - rose by 1.1% over the month. As a result, the proportion of sales made online rose from 27.4% in May 2025 to 27.8% in June 2025.

For June 2025, the Retail Sales Index (RSI) response rates were 62.6% based on returned forms, 2.3 percentage points above the initial estimate for May 2025. This accounted for 88.9% of total turnover coverage of the sample population. For historical response information, see our Retail sales quality tables dataset.

Information on how we calculated the data, including strengths and limitations, and a glossary of relevant terms, is available in our RSI quality and methodology information (QMI).

Seasonal adjustment

Seasonally adjusted estimates are derived by estimating and removing calendar effects (for example, Easter moving between March and May) and seasonal effects (for example, increased spending in December because of Christmas) from the non-seasonally adjusted estimates.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) uses the X-13ARIMA-SEATS approach to seasonal adjustment. Seasonal adjustment parameters are monitored closely and regularly reviewed. For more information, please see our seasonal adjustment methodology page.

Seasonal adjustment is applied at the industry level and the seasonally adjusted series are aggregated to create estimates by industry sector and total retail. As part of our quality assurance approach, residual seasonality checks are completed regularly by our time series analysis team on both the directly seasonally adjusted series and the indirectly derived aggregate time series.

Accredited official statistics

These accredited official statistics were independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation in May 2015. They comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics and should be labelled "accredited official statistics".