Footfall Decline Deepens Despite Black Friday Sales - Springboard's Monthly Footfall November 2016

SPRINGBOARD's Monthly Footfall Benchmark Update Published in collaboration with the BRC Footfall Decline Deepens Despite Black Friday Sales November 2016 UK Footfall % Change Year-on-Year Springboard Index -1.0% High Street Index -0.7% Retail Park Index -0.1% Shopping Centre Index -2.3% Diane Wehrle, Marketing & Insights Director at Springboard, said: “November footfall revealed four distinct trends: a continued bounce back of the High Street from last year with footfall moving to -0.7% from -3.4% in November 2015; the ongoing significance of Black Friday for the high street as well as online; a slowdown in the growth of footfall to out of town destinations; and of most concern, a further decline in footfall to..." Helen Dickinson, British Retail Consortium Chief Executive, said: "The drop in footfall we saw across the UK in October deepened in November, with shopper numbers falling 1% over the previous year compared to October’s fall of 0.4%." “As we saw in the sales data, Black Friday did little to impact the overall monthly trend in footfall. Whilst the event clearly..." For the full Springboard and BRC release contact us or click here The full report contains a monthly overview and a regional breakdown of each sector, as well as further monthly commentary specific to each sector.