New data has revealed that footfall across UK retail destinations declined by 9.3% last week from the week before.
While high street footfall and shopping centres saw respective drops of 10.9% and 11.6%, retail parks experienced a smaller decline of 3.1%.
The figures from retail specialist Springboard also show that towns attracting tourists recorded the biggest declines from the week before. Coastal towns were hardest hit with the number of visits falling by 20.7%.
The figures also show that the return to work meant that there was a noticeably smaller decline in Springboard’s ‘Back to the Office Benchmark’ where footfall dropped by 9.7% versus a decline of 15.7% across Central London as a whole.
Last week’s drop meant that the gap from 2019 levels widened once again to – 13.4% from -10.9% in the week before. The uplift from 2020 increased by nearly a third to 43.4% from the week of October half term.
