{"id":166852,"date":"2020-07-08T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/super-saturday-fails-to-spark-surge-in-high-street-footfall\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:06:27","slug":"super-saturday-fails-to-spark-surge-in-high-street-footfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/super-saturday-fails-to-spark-surge-in-high-street-footfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Saturday fails to spark surge in high street footfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reopening of pubs and restaurants over the past weekend failed to spark a significant rise in footfall across the high street.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>New data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) revealed that<strong> footfall at shopping areas increased by 9.2% on \u201cSuper Saturday\u201d<\/strong> against the previous Saturday, representing the smallest increase of any day over the past week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total footfall for the seven days to 4 July increased by 15.3% against the previous week<\/strong>, as high streets and shopping centres reported higher increases than retail parks.<\/p>\n<p>The data showed that <strong>UK footfall was -49.6% lower than the same week last year<\/strong>, as retailers continue to be weighed down by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The figures for the third week of reopening in England and Northern Ireland show <strong>a modest improvement from a -53.4% year-on-year decline in the previous week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Footfall on high streets is down -55.7%<\/strong> against the same period last year, while shopping centres have reported a -56.1% decline.<\/p>\n<p>Retail parks have performed more strongly, r<strong>eporting a decline of -24.6% against the same week last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Helen Dickinson, BRC CEO, said: \u201cThe reopening of pubs, cafes and other hospitality businesses this Saturday <strong>does not appear to have benefited shops much<\/strong>, with the Saturday showing more modest growth than the days prior to these locations reopening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>By European standards, the UK\u2019s recovery remains slow,<\/strong> and while safety measures introduced by retailers have been well received by customers, many shoppers are still reluctant to visit physical shopping locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt <strong>remains a long way back to normality for the retail industry<\/strong>; two weeks after most shops reopened in England, footfall is still only half what it was a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andy Sumpter, retail consultant at ShopperTrak, said: \u201cLast week saw <strong>one of the last pieces of the retail recovery puzzle fall into place<\/strong> as England opened up its hospitality sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstandably there is a lot of noise around pubs opening their doors, but <strong>retailers and property owners will be far more interested in seeing an uplift in traffic<\/strong> as a consequence of cafes and restaurants reopening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis didn\u2019t really happen on Saturday, with a modest week-on-week gain of 9.2%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/subscribe-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-146496 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/Banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":139019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16042,6,10494],"tags":[10520,10519,9982,11408,16151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Super Saturday fails to spark surge in high street footfall - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The reopening of pubs and restaurants over the past weekend failed to spark a significant rise in footfall across the high street. 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