Urban retail foot traffic has exhibited an uneven recovery across major metros, with broad variations in visits as the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Placer.ai's Shira Petrack delved into foot traffic numbers for four major cities – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston – and found that the Big Apple suffered the heaviest blow. Summer foot traffic was nearly back to pre-COVID levels, but dropped in August and has remained at pre-pandemic levels since.
The data in LA told a similar story, with year-over-two-year retail growth down for most of last year, a factor Petrack said could be attributed to migration of Angelenos into inland and mountain communities.
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