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Fewer shoppers on Britain's high streets as retail parks report highest footfall yet

As the UK's high streets and shopping centers continue to suffer a lack of footfall, retail parks around the country have reported their largest increase in footfall in over a year last month. Although overall footfall for all three categories declined 1.1 percent year-on-year, out of town retail parks enjoyed a 3.1 percent increase in visitor...

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Shop vacancies plague British high street

The British high street can't seem to attract shopkeepers as the vacancy rate has stagnated at 14.1 percent, only slightly down from 14.2 percent in February. The results come from a published report by the Local Data Company, who have shown that in the top 650 UK shopping centres there is a considerable issue with empty shop spaces. Wales had...