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As we have moved into retail’s “Golden Quarter,” city centres have proved themselves much more resilient than the rest of the retail sector, with stronger monthly and quarterly growth. Looking at annual data and particularly compared to the same month in 2019 before the lockdown, it becomes clear however that city centres have not yet […]
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Comparing September’s city centre sales data as compiled by Beauclair with data from the ONS highlights how the mix of sectors in city centres has changed dramatically since lockdown with food & drink and grocery being the biggest winners followed by fashion, while general retail, which includes department stores, is the big loser. ONS data […]
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City centre retail sales declined by 4% in September compared to August but increased on a Yo3Y basis. Sales in September 2022 were +2% above sales in September 2019, a 4 percentage-point increase on August’s Yo3Y figure of -2%. Food & Drink is still the strongest sector, but its Yo3Y performance is static Food & […]
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1. Sales in September dropped compared to August Across the 62 city centres that Beauclair is currently monitoring retail sales in September dropped -4% compared to August. There was quite a range between these extremes. Tourist destinations tended to drop by much more, with a drop of over -40% in Edinburgh and drops of around […]
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Beauclair recently released August retail data to its client base of Business Improvement Districts and other town centre managers. The following are some of the highlights based on sales data across 62 cities in Great Britain. All data analyses are presented on a Year-on-3-Year basis, ie. comparing any month’s data against the same month in […]
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August 2022 may be the month in which the cost-of-living crisis finally caught up with city centre retail. The recovery of city centres after lockdown has lagged national trends for retail. City centre retail recovered more slowly from lockdowns than online and local retail. But until July 2022, city centre retail sales grew even as […]
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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 lockdown. This is based on data for our client cities and the cities they have chosen to monitor as their peers and competitors. On average, […]
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Our city centres are changing profoundly. Beauclair’s latest data shows just how much the covid lockdown has accelerated this transformation. Beauclair provides its Business Improvement District (BID) and other clients with detailed retail data on cities that account for around 20% of the UK’s population. Our data not only breaks down sales by value and […]
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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 sales with medium-sized cities suffering the most. Food & Drink and Entertainment were the worst hit sectors, losing 1.3 and 1.7 weeks of sales respectively. […]
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