
Footfall to retail destinations in the five weeks to October 3 continued to strengthen overall compared to recent months, but remained well below the levels of a year ago.
243 published items with the word (s) or phrase Springboard in News, Trends, Videos, Photo galleries, Agenda and sorted by "date descending".
Footfall to retail destinations in the five weeks to October 3 continued to strengthen overall compared to recent months, but remained well below the levels of a year ago.
UK retail footfall remains weak at what should be one of the busier times of the year with a fall of 3.5% week-on-week in the seven days up to last Saturday.
Visitor traffic to retail destinations rose in the latest week, up 2.4% compared to the week before. But that wasn't the good news it might have been as the previous week had seen a footfall drop of 6.3%.
The UK’s footfall recovery seems to have stalled with the latest figures from tracking firm Springboard showing a 6.3% week-on-week drop in the seven days to September 12.
Footfall to UK city centres may remain stubbornly low, but in the week that kids returned to school for the first time in many months, some adults also felt the time was right to get back to their workplaces.
UK retail footfall continues to strengthen, although it’s still not where stores would want it to be and the return to normality will be slow. Store vacancy rates are up too, further undermining the rate of recovery.
More than one-in-ten British shops now stand empty, reflecting recent widespread closures which are partly the result of the coronavirus crisis, a report on Thursday showed.
Chanel's Bond Street store is reportedly up for sale and the brand could be among the bidders for the space. The auction will be a major test of investor confidence in the future of the West End.
The coronavirus pandemic is upending the way U.S. consumers shop and the holidays will be no exception as major retailers and shippers roll out their earliest-ever holiday shopping season.
Shopper numbers remain muted in the UK and the West End of London is still suffering, new data has shown. But there remain signs that a slow upturn is happening.