The past week saw UK retail footfall record its best performance since the beginning of the pandemic.
Compared with 2019, footfall all retail destinations was down 16.3%.
Compared to 2020, footfall was up by 14.2%. High streets saw a 23.4% rise, shopping centres a 5.7% increase and retail parks a 3.2% lift.
Footfall compared with the previous week was 4.9% higher.
‘The positive news for bricks-and-mortar retail destinations is that footfall last week was noticeably higher than in the same week in 2020 when the August Bank Holiday also occurred, particularly in high streets; and the gap from 2019 was the smallest of any week since the start of the pandemic in March 2020,’ says Diane Wehrle, Springboard insights director.
