High Street Sales Down, Online Shopping Sales Up
The latest figures released by an Experian Footfall study indicates that shoppers are continuing to desert the high street. The worst hit regions were Wales and the South East where shopper numbers were down 7.13% while the North East, South East and East Midlands saw a rise. This is a recession trend that I have noticed all to clearly where my local city centre high street is worryingly starting to resemble a ghost town due to an increasing number of empty, disused shop fronts.
However, it was admitted that as figures from 2008 featured an early easter this may have skewed this years study data but it was added that Mothers day figures were also down by 1.7% on last year.
In contrast another recent study showed that there has been a 13% increase in online shopping sales in February. Maybe this is a sign that the UK shopper is starting to divert their attention away from the struggling high street in favour of online discount shopping where the convenience and choice of discount offers is abundant.
