UK high streets hit by dip in footfall over key Christmas weekend
Shoppers shied away from UK high streets and shopping centres in the last weekend before Christmas, with the number of visitors down 2.6% on the previous week.
Central London and other city centres were hit particularly hard by the decline in visitors on the peak shopping weekend of the year, according to the latest data from the shopper counting service Springboard, as analysts said there was “growing nervousness” among consumers caused by the rapid rise in Omicron cases.
Diane Wehrle, Springboard’s insights director, said a rise in the number of shoppers out and about at the beginning of last week had “dwindled with each day that passed”. Shopper numbers across the UK fell on Sunday compared with the same day in the previous week, an almost
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