Footfall revise festive sales

Footfall have released more encouraging reports on post-Christmas shopper activity, upturning poor figures oringally reported in Internet wins Christmas shoppers, but high street sales fail Boxing Day.

Reporting on activity from December 26th to December 28th, consumer spending was up an overall 2,1%. this was despite Boxing Day custom being initially down by 16.1%, which was blamed on it falling on a Sunday.

However, retail figures in comparison to 2003 show an overall fall in December by 1.2%.

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