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| Marks and Spencer recovery stalls as non-food sales fall | Marks and Spencer recovery stalls as non-food sales fall |
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| Marks and Spencer's recent revival has suffered a setback after it reported a fall in non-food sales. | Marks and Spencer's recent revival has suffered a setback after it reported a fall in non-food sales. |
| Like-for-like sales of general merchandising - which includes clothing - fell 0.4% in the 13 weeks to 27 June, which M&S described as a "challenging" quarter. | |
| That compares with growth of 0.7% in the previous quarter, which had been M&S's best performance for nearly four years. | |
| Like-for-like sales of food rose 0.3%. | Like-for-like sales of food rose 0.3%. |
| Chief executive Marc Bolland said: "We continue to make progress against our key priorities. Our food business did very well in a difficult market." | Chief executive Marc Bolland said: "We continue to make progress against our key priorities. Our food business did very well in a difficult market." |
| Sales through M&S's website grew 38.7% from a year earlier, after a sharp slump in online sales at the beginning of last year immediately after the site was re-launched. |