LONDON (UK) – Market researcher Springboard said on Monday that the number of shoppers across British retail destinations came down to 55.4% in the week to Nov. 21 from a year earlier.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered England into a month-long lockdown in early November after coronavirus infection cases and deaths started to rise again, angering businesses and some of his own political party over the economic consequences.
Springboard said shopper numbers, or footfall, in England was down 59.8% year-on-year, with the other three nations showing an improvement to down 34.3% in Scotland, down 30.4% in Northern Ireland and down 29.6% in Wales.
It said regional city centres continued to be hardest hit with footfall down 64.4%. Central London was down 80.4%.
Springboard said that on a week-on-week basis there was an improvement of 5.9% across all UK retail destinations.