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Bumper Christmas for city centre
Date:
26 January 2012
The largest number of Christmas shoppers in years took to the streets of Liverpool in 2011, bucking a UK-wide decline for the high street.
More than 18m customers flocked to Liverpool city centre between October and December – almost 3m more than for 2010.
Liverpool city centre footfall for December was up by 35.72% on the previous year, although last year’s freezing conditions may have driven shoppers online to buy from the comfort of their computers.
But this year’s figures were also better than for years when the weather was not a factor, with December, 2011, showing an increase of 13.58% on 2009, 7.22% on 2008, 25.56% on 2007, and 8.89% on 2006.
Liverpool’s John Lewis enjoyed a record week in the run-up to Christmas, with sales up 11.4% on the previous year.
Retailers also welcomed bumper numbers of sales shoppers, as the final week of December saw the city centre heaving with 1,647,624 customers, up 5.21% on 2010 and 18.92% on 2009.
To read this story in full go to the Daily Post website here.
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