chennai in an indication of improved consumer spending a report from industry body retailers association of india and payments platform innoviti showed that greenshoots were seen in retail spending in q3 of fy20 with spending in the revival mode q3 saw an overall growth at over 65 compared to 35 in q2 in comparison with the corresponding period of fy19the data has been arrived at with inputs from over 20000 retailers from 36 states and with sales worth 10 billion the growth in q3 spending can be attributed to festive season which saw the pent up demand grow and as a result increased discretionary spending from customers interpreting the data shows that while the octoberdecember quarter saw pickup in spending across sectors grocery as a category which has the minimum impact of slowdown saw the highest growth of 1012in the apriljune quarter that was the most impacted by slowdown grocery still weathered the storm and saw a growth of 65 higher than the overall growth in retail spends at 36 for the 3 quarters of fy20 grocery saw a 1324 growth the most to be hit by the slowdown is however the fashion and apparel segment which had a higher element of discretionary spending its q3 growth bounced back to of 544 after a 15 decline in the previous quarter