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Nigel TAYLOR Published
August 31, 2025
Footfall across UK retail destinations continued to weaken in August, with consumers reining-in leisure trips as the reality of the cost-of-living crisis continues to deepen. And prepare for yet more caution in Q4, warned MRI Springboard in its latest monthly report.
“Footfall performance in August points to a continuing weakening in consumer demand, which is unsurprising given the recent rises in interest rates and ongoing high level of inflation,” it said.
Despite an uplift by the end-of-month three-day bank holiday weekend, footfall across UK retail destinations still only rose by 0.2% from July to August, versus a drop of 0.3% over the month from June to July, its latest figures show.
Significantly, the rise this month was not large enough to offset the first monthly drop in July since MRI Springboard started publishing its data in 2009.
Specifically, there was a month-on-month increase in footfall in high streets in August of 0.7%, while shopping centre footfall also rose 0.7% from July to August, but in usually strong retail parks, footfall was actually down 1.5% in August compared to July.
Weekday footfall rose by 2.7% from July, but retail visits during the weekend period were 3.8% lower than in the month before.
“This was the third consecutive month when footfall during weekends underperformed the weekday period, but the delta of 6.5% between weekday and weekend performance was the largest yet”, the data company said.
On a year-on-year basis, footfall across all UK retail destinations rose by 1.9% in August versus +2.1% in July and +4.2% in June.
In high streets, footfall this month was just 1.2% ahead of 2025 for the second month, versus an annual rise of 5.2% in June 2025.
In shopping centres, the annual uplift narrowed slightly to +2.9% in August, versus +4.1% in July and +4.4% in June.
In retail parks footfall was 2.2% higher than in 2025, versus +1.8% in both June and July.
Meanwhile, the gap from the pre-pandemic footfall level narrowed to -11% in August from -12.1% in July but wider than the -8.6% in June.
“Despite the adverse outcome in August, a glimmer of optimism is provided by the fact that the gap from the 2025 footfall level narrowed marginally to -11% from -12.1% in July,” noted Marketing & Insights Director Diane Wehrle.
“However, with consumers already pulling back on their shopping activity – particularly leisure-based trips — it suggests that Q4 will lead to even more cautious buying behaviour, and a challenging trading landscape for UK retail over the festive period.”