Retail sales grew to 2.07 billion Singapore dollars ($1.29 billion), compared with the 7.7 percent year-on-year growth forecast in a Dow Jones Newswires poll of economists.

Sales at department stores fell 4.4 percent from a year earlier in February, food and beverage sales fell 41 percent and sales from supermarkets fell 8.4 percent.

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