UK retail sales stagnate in February, before virus hit

LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales stagnated last month in their weakest performance in nearly seven years, official data showed on Thursday, even before what shops expect to be the biggest fall in sales for over a decade due to coronavirus-imposed shutdowns.Sales volumes were flat in February compared with the same month in 2019 after growth of 0.9% in January, the Office for National Statistics said. This was the first time sales have not grown since March 2013, when Britain was hit by..