London's retail footfall dropped 2.1% year on year last month, according to retail analysts Springboard and the British Retail Consortium. Footfall decreased 1.1% nationwide, with high streets also dropping by 2.1%, figures showed. Shopping centres fell by 1.3%, but customers were still keen to head to out of town retail parks, which bucked the trend with a 1.7% rise. The ONS said that while sales at online retailers rose in November, they remained below levels seen before the Brexit vote.
London's retail footfall dropped 2.1% year on year last month, according to retail analysts Springboard and the British Retail Consortium. Footfall decreased 1.1% nationwide, with high streets also dropping by 2.1%, figures showed. Shopping centres fell by 1.3%, but customers were still keen to head to out of town retail parks, which bucked the trend with a 1.7% rise. Diane Wehrle, the marketing and insights director at Springboard, said the data may highlight a "sea change" in consumers' spending appetite because it was the first time since the start of the year that footfall fell in both the evening and the day.