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Brazil’s December retail sales sink historic 6.1% as pandemic, food inflation bite

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian retail sales slumped 6.1% in December, official figures showed on Wednesday, the biggest fall for that particular month and the second largest of all since comparable records began more than 20 years ago.

Researchers at government statistics agency IBGE said the fall was due a loss of momentum from the record level of sales in the preceding two months, the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic picking up, and high food price inflation.

The 6.1% monthly fall was second only to April’s 17.2% plunge at the height of the initial . . .

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