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Retail Footfall: Towns Outperformed Cities Last Week
Ipsos has published retail footfall data for Monday 9th to Sunday 15th May, revealing that across the UK, footfall fell by -14.4% compared to 2019 in the Non-Food sector.
The data also shows that towns outperformed cities by 2.3% points, and the best performing region was Northern England where store visits were down by -14%.
Name | Week commencing | % change v 2019 | WoW % change |
UK | 9/05/2022 | -14.4% | -6.5% |
Cities | 9/05/2022 | -12.5% | -6.6% |
Towns | 9/05/2022 | -10.2% | -5.3% |
High Street | 9/05/2022 | -17.2% | -5.1% |
Retail Park | 9/05/2022 | -7.0% | -8.6% |
Shopping Centre | 9/05/2022 | -14.8% | -6.0% |
Northern England | 9/05/2022 | -14.0% | -6.2% |
Scotland & N.Ireland | 9/05/2022 | -18.0 | -5.4% |
Midlands | 9/05/2022 | -15.1% | -6.2% |
South West England & Wales | 9/05/2022 | -14.6 | -3.9% |
London & South East | 9/05/2022 | -15.0% | -7.7% |
Source : Ipsos
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