Drivers scaling back their petrol and fuel spending at the sharpest pace since the Covid lockdowns of 2020 pushed retail sales in Great Britain to their steepest monthly fall in a year. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that total retail sales volumes dropped by 1.3% in April compared with March. This marked the largest monthly decline since May of the previous year and was significantly worse than the -0.6% decrease analysts had anticipated. Fuel sales tumbled by more than 10%