
UK footfall climbed steadily during February and while the year-on-year decline compared to a year ago remained huge (-61%), it was better than the -65.6% seen in January.
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UK footfall climbed steadily during February and while the year-on-year decline compared to a year ago remained huge (-61%), it was better than the -65.6% seen in January.
UK shoppers are continuing to flood back to stores, even though most remain closed at present, and this bodes well for non-essential stores reopening next month.
Prepare for the footfall surge. With the 12 April date set for the long-awaited reopening of non-essential retail in England, UK stores can expected a 47.9% week-on-week leap in footfall, according to Springboard data.
With the government unwilling to allow non-essential shops to reopen very quickly, UK consumers are voting with their feet and continuing to drift back to physical shopping, even though most stores are closed.
The weather may not have been great last week and non-essential shops may have stayed closed, but footfall to retail destinations continued to rise, having done so steadily in recent weeks.
Pent-up desire to go out and shop is growing week-on-week. As lockdowns in the UK drag on, footfall across all retail destinations rose by 6.7% in the seven days between 31 January and 5 February.
Despite awful retail footfall figures for January, lockdown fatigue and pent-up desire to go non-essential shopping is simmering. So expect a bounce-back when the world of retail fully reopens, says Springboard.
Visitor traffic to retail destinations is still moving higher in Britain, even though bad weather means the rise is fairly small. But Central London continues to suffer with few visitors to be seen.
Some consumers are finding it hard to stay at home. It seems footfall across all UK retail destinations rose last week, despite lockdown restrictions and the onset of winter weather in many parts of the country.
This won't come as a surprise to many people but 2020 was the year that annual footfall dropped to its lowest level ever recorded. It was down 39.1% in the UK as the pandemic changed the retail industry forever.