And it was the reopening of pubs, cafes, and restaurants that was key, which may not have a direct impact on fashion shops, but is an important part of encouraging consumers into physical shopping destinations.In high streets, where the vast majority of hospitality outlets are located, the rise in footfall over the week reached 16.5%, which was good news, although we shouldn’t get carried away yet as total UK footfall still remains at just under half the level of that in early July 2019.

Those figures come from specialist tracker Springboard, which also said that in shopping centres, the increase in footfall was only 7.8%, although this is a positive result in light of the fact that far fewer hospitality outlets are located within these centresคำพูดจาก