Footfall
Footfall is a vital metric for the UK jewellery trade, directly impacting retail performance and shaping strategies for high street and shopping centre locations. For jewellers, suppliers, and trade professionals, understanding footfall trends helps optimise store layouts, marketing campaigns, and staffing during peak periods. Jewellery Focus provides detailed coverage on footfall patterns, consumer behaviour, retail analytics, and insights into how economic and seasonal factors influence in-store traffic.
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Mar- 2016 -9 MarchCurrent Affairs
SNP vote threatens extension to Sunday trading hours
A proposed bill to extend Sunday trading hours is under threat after the Scottish National Party (SNP) said it will vote against the plans. Under the government plans, Sunday trading hours for high street shops would be devolved to local authorities. Local councils would be given the power to extend…
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Feb- 2016 -26 FebruaryRetailers
Tunbridge Wells historic jewellers to close its doors
Historic jewellery store in Tunbridge Wells, Payne & Son, is set to close after becoming a โvictim to the rise in online shoppingโ. The store, which originally started as Payne & Son (Silversmiths) in Kent in 1790 and then opened an outlet in the town 146 years ago, is being…
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23 FebruaryRetailers
Jersey Pearl sales jump 39% after creative Valentine’s campaign
Jewellery designer and retailer Jersey Pearl has reported a surge in sales over the Valentineโs Day period, following an innovative marketing campaign. The jewellers โShare the Loveโ campaign, which culminated with an artist-lead window display, lead to a โpeak in footfallโ and a 39% increase in sales in the week…
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15 FebruaryEconomy
January sees best overall footfall performance in two years
Retail footfall in January has recorded growth of 1.2% compared with the same month last year – its best performance since January 2014. Thatโs according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor which found the increase was significantly above the 2.2.% decline seen in December…
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Jan- 2016 -29 JanuaryEconomy
Unseasonable weather damages independent retail sales in Q4
A โdramatic reversal of fortunesโ in the last three months of 2015 has brought an end to an 18 month run of turnover growth for independent retailers. The British Independent Retailers Associationโs (BIRA) Sales Monitor for the fourth quarter of 2015 found unseasonably warm and wet weather, falling footfall, falling…
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25 JanuaryE-Commerce
Online sales โnearly doubleโ for jewellery on โCyber Weekendโ
Online sales of jewellery over Cyber Weekend – the weekend following Black Friday – nearly doubled, according to the Edinburgh Assay Office.ย Figures from the officeโs Hallmarking and Fulfillment Service, which provides online jewellery retailers with integrated hallmarking and direct final mile delivery to consumers, increased โsignificantlyโ in 2015 compared…
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18 JanuaryEconomy
Footfall across the UK down 2.2% in December
Footfall in December was down 2.2% on the same time last year as consumers turned to e-commerce for their Christmas shopping. Thatโs according to the latest British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor, which found the 2.2% decline was marginally lower than the 2.1% decline in November,…
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8 JanuaryRetailers
EXCLUSIVE: Winsor Bishop on track for โrecordโ sales growth
Norwich-based independent jeweller Winsor Bishop is on target to achieve the highest sales growth in its 185-year history, Jewellery Focus can reveal. In the financial year to date (from 1 April to 31 December), the jeweller – which was victim of an armed robbery earlier this year – reported a…
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Dec- 2015 -14 DecemberEconomy
Black Friday hits high street footfall
Footfall in November was 2.1% lower than a year ago, as Black Friday shoppers turned to online shopping instead of the high street. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor found the fall was significantly below the 0.2% decline in October and underperformed the three-month average…
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Nov- 2015 -30 NovemberEconomy
Black Friday footfall down as shoppers turn to online
E-commerce stole the show over the Black Friday weekend as retail footfall fell unexpectedly across the UK, according to retail footfall analyst firm Springboard. Footfall across retail destinations in the UK for the weekend as a whole was down 9.6% compared with the same period last year, as shoppers increasingly…
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