Announcement, December 2020
Announcement, December 2020
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Shoppers returned to cities and shopping centres in large numbers as customers as the UK enjoyed its first weekend since mid-October when retailers in all four countries no longer had to be in lockdown.
According to data from retail monitoring firm Springboard, overall footfall across the UK increased 19.5 per cent compared with a week earlier.
Shopping centres saw the biggest rise, increasing 26.3 per cent week-on-week, while high streets and retail parks increased 21.1 per cent and nine per cent respectively.
In the second week following the reopening of non-essential retail stores footfall across UK retail destinations continued to rise. The uplift was smaller than in the first week, but it was still significantly greater than in the second week following the reopening of retail in June, indicating the desire of shoppers to visit bricks and mortar stores in the run up to Christmas. The demand by shoppers to visit retail destinations is highlighted by the contrast with this week in 2019 when footfall declined, following a surge in demand in the previous two weeks, most likely as a result of Black Friday.
By far the greatest rises occurred in shopping centres and high streets, with the largest shopping centres being the most in demand by shoppers. Whilst the increase in footfall was more modest in retail parks we know they have consistently retained far more footfall largely due to the presence of food stores, and so start from a much higher base. However, despite the continuing increase in footfall from the week before, footfall remains substantially below the 2019 level.
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