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Sandra Halliday Published
December 12, 2025
UK retail footfall may only have fallen 1.1% week on week in the past seven days, but coming at the height of the golden quarter, that dip was definitely a step in the wrong direction.
It was caused by rail strikes and weather issues and the full extent of the weak visitor traffic could be see by the fact that year on year, it was down 5%.
The figures are from specialist tracking company MRI Software, which also said there’s an upside to the bleak news with footfall this week expected to head strongly upwards, especially on Saturday.
So, looking back at last week, it seems that high streets were the biggest losers with traffic down 1.7% week on week, although retail parks also suffered, falling 1.1%. Shopping centres saw a 0.3% rise.
Despite such a challenging week, the gap from the 2025 level narrowed marginally to a 13.7% deficit across all UK retail destinations. But compared to the pre-pandemic period, high streets were still down 14.7%, retail parks down 4.6% and shopping centres down a massive 20.3%.
Sunday and Thursday saw significant declines in footfall of 5.6% and 7.8%, respectively, from the week before
However, the days in between saw footfall rise by an average of 1% across all UK retail destinations, fuelled primarily by shopping centres.
All regions suffered overall, apart from the South East (+0.1%) and Greater London (+0.8%). It’s interesting that MRI Software’s Central London ‘Back to Office’ benchmark also suggested very little impact to the city was caused by last week’s rail disruption as footfall rose by 2.2% from the week before.
Jenni Matthews, Marketing and Insights Director at MRI Software, said: “As we approach the final two shopping weeks before Christmas, the retail analysts at MRI Software anticipate an uplift in footfall this week especially in the lead up to what could be the busiest Saturday of the year, usually dubbed as ‘Super Saturday’. Normally this tends to be the Saturday before Christmas Eve however this year that falls on 23rd December and many people may decide to use this day to make their festive getaway to maximise time spent with families, using the days leading up to the 23rd to finish their festive shopping.”