New figures have shown that UK retail footfall dropped by 2.3% last week from the previous seven-day period.
According to figures from Springboard, there were declines within all main destination types with high streets seeing a fall of 3.3% and retail parks and shopping centres experiencing respective drops of 1.5% and 0.7%.
Looking at different regions of the UK, Scotland was the only area where footfall increased with an uplift of 1.1%.
Springboard said the figures meant that the increase from 2021 across all UK retail destinations contracted to +5.9% from +6.7% in the previous week. In addition, the gap from 2019 widened to -11.1 from-9.2% in the week before last.
