Next affected by 'volatile' trading in third quarter

High Street fashion and homewares retailer Next said that its sales performance was 'volatile' in the third quarter with stronger sales in late September and early October offsetting an unusually quiet start to August.

High Street fashion and homewares retailer Next said that its sales performance was 'volatile' in the third quarter with stronger sales in late September and early October offsetting an unusually quiet start to August.

The group had already flagged in its interim results that sales at the start of the third quarter had been "disappointing".

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