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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Jan- 2023 -20 JanuaryRetailers
Beaverbrooks sees record December sales
Jewellery retailer Beaverbrooks has announced record breaking December sales with an 8% increase compared with 2021. The retailer also stated that it saw an 18% increase in sales when only accounting for the last two weeks of the month compared with 2021. Despite the cost of living crisis and rail…
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3 JanuaryNews
Footfall drops almost 30% post Christmas
Retailers in the UK saw footfall decrease 27.7% last week compared to the week before Christmas, which was just 7% higher than this week last year, according to data from Springboard. This number was nearly 20% lower than the number in 2019, although Springboard did attribute some of this to…
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Dec- 2022 -6 DecemberEconomy
Footfall rises 5.4% amid ‘cause for optimism’, Springboard says
Footfall rose by +5.4% across all UK retail destinations last week from the week before, with increases across all three key destination types (+6.9% in high streets, +4.8% in shopping centres and +3% in retail parks), according to Springboard. Springboard said this offers a “cause for some optimism” for retailers…
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Nov- 2022 -25 NovemberEconomy
Black Friday footfall up 4.6% on 2021
Results for the period up to 12pm on Black Friday, 25 November, showed that footfall across all UK retail destinations is +7.3% higher than last Friday, according to Springboard. The winners so far were shopping centres where footfall is +13.9% higher than last week. Footfall is higher than last year…
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7 NovemberRetailers
Footfall declines 7.5% in week after half-term
Footfall across UK retail destinations declined by -7.5% last week, following a rise of +8.2% in the week before last during the school half term holiday week, according to Springboard. The gap from the 2019 footfall level widened to -9.8% last week from -9% in the week before last indicating…
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Oct- 2022 -31 OctoberRetailers
Footfall sees largest increase since Easter during half-term week
Footfall across UK retail destinations rose by 8.2% last week from the week before, a greater increase than in any week since Easter 2022, according to Springboard. Footfall rose in all three key destination types; by 10.7% in shopping centres, by 8.7% in high streets and by 4.2% in retail…
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28 OctoberRetailers
Store vacancy rate falls but remains below pre-pandemic levels
In the third quarter of 2022, the overall GB vacancy rate decreased to 13.9%, a 0.1% rise from Q2 and 0.6% better than the same period last year, according to the latest monitor from the BRC and Local Data Company. This was the fourth consecutive quarter of falling vacancy rates.…
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17 OctoberEconomy
City centre footfall increases as workers return to the office
Footfall across UK retail destinations rose marginally by +0.8% last week from the week before as performance was boosted by the return of office workers in city centres, according to the latest data from Springboard. The rise in footfall of +1.6% in high streets from the week before was predominantly…
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11 OctoberRetailers
Retail sales rise 2.2% in September
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) Sales Monitor reports that, on a total basis, sales increased by 2.2% in September, against an increase of 0.6% in September 2021. According to the BRC, the UK retail sales also increased 1.8% on a like-for-like basis from September 2021, when they had reportedly decreased…
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6 OctoberEconomy
Footfall slows to +6.8% in September
UK footfall slowed for the third consecutive month and now sits just 6.8% compared with the same period in 202, as the rising cost of living cuts consumer visits according to the latest data from Springboard. Springboard revealed that superficially September’s results suggest that footfall has largely been unaffected by…
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