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Retail Footfall: Towns Outperformed Cities Last Week

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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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17 May 2022

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