Figures reveal that retail footfall decreased 0.9% year-on-year in September.
The British Retail Consortium and Springboard’s monthly footfall monitor suggests that high street footfall dropped 0.5%, despite two months of progress including a 1.1% rise in August.
Other figures show that footfall in shopping centres decreased 2.5%, whilst footfall in retail parks was broadly flat following a 0.4% increase in August.
BRC chief executive, Helen Dickinson, said: “Total footfall was fractionally down this month with almost one per cent fewer people heading out to shopping locations across the UK. While in itself this isn’t the news retailers would hope for, taken with other retail industry data published this month it tells a fascinating story.
“At the same time as both footfall and shop prices have fallen year-on-year, retail spending grew in September by 1.3%. This is a function of the changing face of retail and the hard work and innovation of British retail businesses who are responding brilliantly to technological advances and changing consumer habits.”
