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Retail sales have experienced the largest quarterly fall in 11 years, with sales falling by 1.1%, or $179 million.
Automotive industries led the drop, with fuel retailing down
8.2% and vehicle sales down 5.3%.
Supermarket and grocery stores bucked the trend, seeing an increase
in sales of 1.3% or $45 million.
However, this positive result was partly offset by a drop in department store sales which were down 3.1%, or $30 million.
The trend for retail sales overall since March last year is one of decline, with sales down 1.5% over the period.
Automotive retailing led falling sales volume over this
period.
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