Have city centres been hit by the cost of living crisis?
Beauclair’s data for July 2022, which we have just released to our clients, shows that July was the strongest month for retail sales in city centres since the end of …
How big a bite did Omicron take out of city centre retail sales?
The Omicron wave disrupted city centre sales, pushing sales back down below their 2019 levels for the period November 2021 to January 2022. The average city lost 1.2 weeks of …
Was the city centre retail recovery stalling before Omicron hit?
Beauclair has just submitted its reports on November’s retail sales to its Business Improvement District (BID) clients. Most city centres that we monitor showed strong recovery in September and October, …