New figures have revealed that retail footfall dropped by 1.1% last week from the previous seven day period despite the fact that Plan B Covid-19 restrictions had not fully come into force.
The data from retail specialist Springboard shows that the number of visits to from Central London was down 3% from the week before while regional cities saw a 1.6% decline.
In contrast, footfall in market towns edged up 1.5%.
Looking at the different types of retail destination, footfall in high streets and retail parks declined by 2.7% and 0.04% respectively while the number visits to shopping centres rose by 1.1%. Springboard attributed this partly to Tuesday’s poor weather.
