Shoppers are starting to return to UK retail locations including Oxford Street. Image: Shutterstock
Two weeks into store re-openings, are shoppers still keen to buy in-store? The latest footfall figures suggest that more people continue to visit shops than did when stores reopened from the first lockdown, back in June. But store visits have not yet recovered to their pre-pandemic level, according to figures from both business intelligence specialist Springboard and the London retailer association the New West End Company. That’s likely to be because of the continued shift to home working.
Fewer people visited retail destinations across the UK last week than did in the previous week. Footfall was down by 3.4% over the full week, possibly thanks to a huge uplift on Sunday since stores were not open on the previous Sunday.
Over Monday to Friday alone, footfall was down by 10.7% – likely because more people worked from home than from their offices. And on Saturday alone, footfall was 0.9% higher than in the previous week. That, says Springboard, is the first evidence of a…
