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"footfall" Definitions
  1. [countable] (literary) the sound of the steps made by somebody walking
  2. [uncountable] (British English, business) the number of people that visit a particular shop, shopping centre, etc. over a period of time
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S. sentiment and reports of weaker footfall in its stores.
Shopkeepers like the new mix, as the residents provide footfall.
Since the 1990s, the footfall around Syd's has also changed.
I heard her footfall as she went down the stairs.
Nature sounds abound: cicadas, frogs, crickets, rain, thunder, leaves, footfall.
Footfall and revenue from French shoppers were "nearly stable" at the flagship Haussmann store during the period but footfall and revenue from foreign tourists fell 15 percent when compared to the first-half 2015.
Only Chichen Itza and Teotihuacan, two archaeological sites, see more footfall.
Your head is level, looking ahead, lightly bobbing with each footfall.
No noise came from beyond it, no footfall interrupted the light beneath it.
As footfall to beleaguered high streets diminishes, garages are pulling more people in.
But workers will need new skills as stores try to create more footfall.
Store footfall fell 47 percent that day as protesters blocked motorways, sparking major logjams.
This means that hypermarket footfall in Russia could still grow as consumer sentiment improves.
Year-on-year footfall fell by 3.5 percent in the five weeks to Dec.
These have to face decline in footfall and strong price pressures that compress their margins.
It brings revenue and footfall to the shops whilst providing a needed service to travellers!
This is reflected in our expectation of weak footfall and higher operating leverage in 2017.
Given the uncertainties over customer footfall Greggs is cautious on the outlook for sales across 21.
Apart from the school groups that pass through the Msheireb museums, the footfall is generally light.
These include "high footfall" locations like shopping malls, stadiums, city centers and big events, he said.
Now the startup has analyzed footfall traffic to reveal insights about people who visit auto dealerships.
The thing is you're never going to get enough footfall, and it'll never translate into sales.
Tourist footfall is gradually reviving, said the high-end Taj Samudra and Shangri-La hotels in Colombo.
It needs more footfall to stay alive, says Helen Plant, the parish council clerk, or administrative head.
Declining footfall is taking its toll on sales, with leading U.S. chain Macy's to close 100 shops.
The latter was driven not only by strong average basket growth but also an increase in footfall.
Solid ice is a gift to trackless stealth, but this touch of softness will emboss every footfall.
But the real catalyst for this cause has been the weather ... Footfall has been far stronger than expected.
In other words, this is about helping local retailers drive more footfall, but with very little additional overhead.
"Footfall at our showrooms has fallen sharply," said Aditya Pethe, director at Mumbai-based Waman Hari Pethe Jewellers.
Nordstrom is struggling to increase footfall at its stores as consumers shift toward fast-fashion brands and online outlets.
He hurtled toward it, more certain with each footfall that he wasn't going to be able to scale it.
The tech company used foot-traffic data, which includes explicit check-ins and passive location trails, to predict footfall.
The shoes' foam and carbon-fiber sole is designed to ensure that less energy is lost in each footfall.
The bank said that while branches remain a key part of the service, footfall has declined in recent years.
Footfall and sales were somewhat slower in the 40 or so galleries participating in the London Art Week promotion.
Klepierre announced on Thursday that between February 22 and March 11, footfall in it's Italian malls fell by 30%.
December footfall at the high-end department store chain dropped by 20%, with revenue down 8% year-on-year.
That would be a second straight year of footfall decline - it was down 4.1 percent year-on-year in 2015.
Over the approaching holiday weekend of Dussehra, a Hindu festival, the restaurants should see their heaviest footfall of the year.
Mr Cook pointed the finger at escalating trade tensions between America and China, which he said had hit retail footfall.
On February 22015st a parliamentary committee warned that city centres could become "ghost towns" as shops shut and footfall declines.
There is also upside for LfL footfall growth from the recent introduction of a loyalty card at X5's discounters.
Between punters, performers and volunteers, combined footfall reaches around 200,000 people, temporarily outranking Middlesbrough and Norwich in terms of population size.
It now draws about seven million visitors annually and is India's top tourist site in terms of both revenue and footfall.
DXB Entertainments lost 2792 percent, as Ramadan and hot summer weather may reduce footfall at its Dubai hotels and theme parks.
Upstairs on the second floor, where dealers presented more new works by established and emerging artists, the footfall was conspicuously lighter.
Retailers on the high street have been hit by lower footfall, online competition and costs of maintaining brick-and-mortar stores.
High streets emptied over the weekend as shoppers heeded government advice to avoid unnecessary trips, with footfall down 41% according to Springboard.
Retailers on the High Street have been hit by lower footfall, online competition and higher costs of maintaining brick-and-mortar stores.
Further expected gradual reduction to 6.5% by 2019 will result from gross margin sacrifices to fend off competition and protect footfall rates.
ZSL assessed the site applications on accessibility, visibility and footfall to ensure water refills are available for as many people as possible.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Starbucks will be hoping the collaboration will drive more footfall to its stores.
An increase in footfall was the main driver behind their parent company TJX's 4 percent same-store sales gain in the second quarter.
According to researcher Springboard, footfall on the main shopping streets is anticipated to drop versus 2017, while online transactions are forecast to rise.
Offering customers the option to pay later doesn't just increase footfall and eyeballs, but it also raises average order values and conversion rates.
Most of these kirana stores each day go through hours of down time — when the footfall is low and the business is slow.
Now, online competition and rocketing rents have put the craftsmen under pressure, cutting footfall to retailers and forcing some to consider shutting altogether.
Businesses across the state are taking extra precautions to stop the spread of the virus, and some are registering huge declines in footfall.
Combined with other initiatives, including paying its associates more, his strategy has contributed to six straight quarters of increased footfall in its established stores.
Great for advertisers on the platform to try to guide footfall and nifty for customers who want to cash in on their Swarm obsessions.
Using the number of transactions as a proxy for traffic, footfall at the bull's-eye retailer declined 2.2 percent in the fiscal second quarter.
READ: The paparazzo of the animal kingdom "[Locals] see the direct relation between what the surfers are doing and investment and footfall," Ali explains.
And—as we have such an intensely large footfall—it allows the companies to progress the technology and test it on the necessary scale.
Some of the company's buses had been slightly diverted, she said, but streets blocked by protests had produced unaccustomed quiet and more pedestrian footfall.
She turned away from the window and hurried down the echoless stairs, her footfall landing strangely in her ears, emphatic, like a kind of speech.
And high footfall through its stores means Primark is one of the few fashion names that can still afford to shun margin-damaging online sales.
Britain's high-street stores have struggled with lower footfall as Britons cut back on spending due to Brexit-related uncertainty, hurting retailers like Card Factory.
So, measured by daily footfall, an exhibition of religious sculptures more than 800 years old was the most popular show in the world in 2017.
Lower footfall in Britain's high-street stores has hurt many retailers, including Card Factory, as Britons cut back on spending due to Brexit related uncertainty.
"Towards the end of the reporting period, and in subsequent weeks, we have seen a softening in the UK market with lower footfall," Mothercare said.
DFS said the trading environment had recently weakened beyond its expectation, with significant declines in store footfall leading to a material reduction in customer orders.
Geox chairman and founder Mario Moretti Polegato said that poor weather conditions contributed to lower footfall and sales as well as slowing down order shipping.
There's a clear, demonstrated effect of music on sales performance, with the right kind of tune helping stores significantly increase footfall and influence purchase decisions.
To the businesses hosting the charging stations, AnkerBox is positioning itself as a feature that can help increase the footfall to locations featuring the devices.
Car retailer Pendragon dropped 12% as it warned the virus spread in Britain could reduce footfall and worsen results that already show it losing money.
The company said the impact of the coronavirus outbreak remained uncertain, but added it saw reduced footfall in Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau in February.
Every breath, footfall, click, crack, and crunch is a minor battle won or lost in the trio's fight to escape the blind man's demented court.
DONGGUAN, China/LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - In the digital age, footfall in bricks-and-mortar outlets is an incomplete measure of business activity, but HSBC's (HSBA.
In other words, this is about fighting back against the likes of Amazon and helping local retailers drive more footfall, but with very little additional overhead.
The company does not disclose its store foot traffic numbers, but it reported a "negative" footfall in its last quarter and reduced foot traffic over 2017.
Both Arlanda and the City of Stockholm risk losing footfall to other cities if their visitors feel ripped off every time they arrive at the airport.
Target does not break out the financials for its small stores, though it has said they generate higher sales per square foot and more frequent footfall.
She did say, however, that its small stores tend to receive more frequent footfall than its larger stores, and ring up higher sales per square foot.
The number of people entering shops, a decent proxy for retail spending, has not much changed since the referendum, according to data from Footfall, a consultancy.
Inditex said it was focusing on areas like "location intelligence", ultrasound technology used to track footfall in stores, as well as virtual assistants to help customers.
The combination of a parabolic floor, a high concave roof, and cylindrical walls elicits a dense mass of overtones from even a footfall or a cough.
During the past few months they have painted six near schools and temples, where there is always a heavy footfall, Natthapong Jiravijit, the project manager said.
Bayer said U.S. consumers were switching to online purchases, leading to declines in established drugstore footfall which its own e-commerce push was not offsetting fast enough.
Sands hopes to boost footfall with a London-themed project, plans for which were unveiled earlier this month amid much fanfare with Beckham playing a starring role.
Italy's 51 UNESCO World Heritage sites include whole city centers and town squares which have been increasingly worn out by the footfall of visitors over the centuries.
Although footfall at individual IKEA stores has been falling since 2015, the number of visits to the group's website has increased by over a fifth (see chart).
About 5,000 locals turned out to greet the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, who met business owners grumbling that footfall had plunged after the attack.
Nine businesses folded as a result of the incident, on top of a reduced footfall of up to 80 percent in the immediate vicinity of the poisoning.
Retail data company Springboard and the British Retail Consortium said high street footfall rose 0.3 percent compared with July 2015, following a 3.7 percent drop in June.
Many giants of the health and personal care world have been hit hard by declining footfall in traditionally reliable sales channels such as malls and department stores.
"The year ahead will continue to be challenging until we see an improvement in consumer confidence and a stabilisation in footfall across UK shopping destinations," it said.
"Twenty-four of its total 64 stores in mainland China are closed, while the 40 remaining locations are all running under "reduced hours" with "significant footfall declines.
Born in a Brixton bedsit with just four employees, Pavegen develops and manufactures flooring technology that converts the wasted kinetic energy from human footfall into renewable energy.
Separately, a spokeswoman for the Paris region Chamber of Commerce said footfall was down around 30% in inner city stores and down 6% in malls outside cities.
January is traditionally a quiet month in London's contemporary art world, but thanks to Condo there was plenty of footfall in the galleries on Saturday and Sunday.
To prove out its software, the startup first built an app based on the platform that it calls Neera (Sanskrit for "water"), which specifically parses footfall and other "human movement" metrics, useful for applications in retail, real estate and civic planning — for example to determine well certain retail locations are performing, footfall in popular locations, decisions on where to place or remove stores, or how to price a piece of property.
Shopping malls saw a 15 percent fall in consumer footfall on Saturday compared with the same day last year, according to the CNCC umbrella group of shopping centers.
DFS Furniture plummeted 20 percent on Britain's small-cap index after a profit warning which it blamed on a dip in demand, with significant declines in store footfall.
Town and city centre stores benefited from the uptick in demand rather than shopping centres and retail parks, which saw footfall decline on Friday and Saturday, Springboard said.
The luxury label said 24 of its 64 stores in mainland China were closed, with remaining stores operating with reduced hours and were seeing significant declines in footfall.
In a similar manner, digital agencies are now helping their clients convert online traffic into offline footfall as a means of introducing target segments to a fresh category.
The cuts follow the axing of 930 jobs at the bank earlier this year, as lenders try to trim costs, digitise and adapt to falling footfall in branches.
"In the small number of cooler days in September, Superdry saw strong year-on-year performances, particularly from its cold weather product categories as footfall increased," it said.
Moss Brothers, which offers men's suits for hire, has struggled with falling footfall on UK's high-street and costs related to Britain's planned exit from the European Union.
The hub itself is installed for free and the startup shares revenue with its partner locations, who can generate new revenue streams as well as attracting additional footfall.
Footfall in Target's stores declined 2.2 percent during the second quarter, marking the first time in a year and a half that fewer shoppers visited the retailer's shops.
The next day, that's where I headed, hearing only my own footfall on dried pine needles, and the incessant siren song of humming cicadas along a forest path.
Although most group fitness studios don't want to see a reduction in footfall, some are offering more lenient cancellation policies to ensure no one feels pressured to come.
Nshimye, a pig farmer and shopkeeper, managed to move his allocated plot in Nakivale to an area of higher footfall, and now plans to open a pork restaurant there.
He thinks his system to analyse them might help urban planners and architects identify footfall and other patterns that emerge from past developments, and make better choices in future.
The luxury label said 24 of its 64 stores in mainland China were closed, with remaining stores operating with reduced hours and said they saw significant declines in footfall.
"Primary locations like Oxford Street, where there's sustainable levels of footfall, where the experience is much more than retail, is one of the crucial ingredients for success," Lim said.
The major banks have all said they close branches based on declining footfall, as consumers move to online banking, and that they study the impact of such closures carefully.
A walk in the woods is an exercise in near silence now, the only sounds my own lumbering footfall and the huff of my breath on an uphill path.
To tackle declining footfall and weak sales, executives outlined plans to launch a loyalty program at mid-year and to redesign restaurants to accommodate mobile orders, delivery and catering.
A twig snapped, the result of his own footfall, yet the sound reflected as another presence in the woods, stalking him, and once this idea was introduced, fantasy took hold.
A lack of footfall is an continuing concern for small and midsize commercial galleries, as was clearly the case on Tuesday, 21960 or so miles to the north in Vienna.
Footfall in London's shops was 1.5% lower in May than a year earlier—a slump that the British Retail Consortium blames on the growth of online shopping and weak consumer confidence.
We also project a decrease in EBITDA margin to 6.5% by 2019 on the back of strong promotional activities and gross margin sacrifices to withstand increased competition and protect footfall rates.
The brand has already closed 24 out of 64 stores in mainland China and has seen "significant footfall declines," according to the company's most recent statement about the impact of coronavirus.
"We welcome the reduction, given the business' cash requirement at a time of potentially higher capex requirements as the industry becomes more competitive to sustain structurally declining footfall", Liberum analysts said.
"The brand (Forever 21) has lost much of the excitement and oomph, which is critical to driving footfall and sales," said Neil Saunders, managing director of retail research firm GlobalData Retail.
"Footfall is down, which is likely to have an impact on the wider big ticket market, most notably upholstery," said Peel Hunt analysts, who cut their stock rating to "hold" from "buy".
Mickey Mouse is already eating Hello Kitty's cake in Japan, where footfall at Tokyo DisneySea and Disneyland outstripped those to local players at Hello Kitty-maker Sanrio's Puroland and Nagashima Spa Land.
But somewhere along the line, Zomato opened to everyone what was supposed to be a program for a limited number of subscribers, making it unfeasible for restaurants to handle the additional footfall.
LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Kingfisher, Europe's second largest home improvement retailer, said on Thursday sales in its latest quarter were dented by unusually adverse weather conditions in March which impacted shopper footfall.
All regions of Britain showed a drop in footfall in December, with the sharpest falls in Scotland (down 4.7 percent), south west England (down 5.2 percent) and Greater London (down 3.7 percent).
"Adding alcohol will be helpful inasmuch as it will drive some additional footfall into the stores and those customers will likely go on to purchase other products, such as snacks," he said.
"Retail sales continued to decline in the latest three months due to weak sales across most store types, with February's bad weather and flooding impacting on footfall," ONS statistician Rhian Murphy said.
Some runners and researchers think the Vaporfly does confer an unfair advantage, since the shoes&apos foam and carbon-fiber sole is designed so that less energy is lost in each footfall.
The technology being used was developed by a spin-off startup out of the University of Graz, and Telekom Austria said it is usually used to measure footfall in popular tourist sites.
The protests have cost over 12 million pounds ($16 million)to businesses in London's West End, famous for its theaters and shops, with some seeing a 25 percent drop in sales and footfall.
Down the line, the same systems can potentially be used for inventory checks, updates on in-store footfall, and other physical details that are harder to monitor when you're not at the store.
"We have had a solid start to the year with further sales growth despite an ongoing sector trend of subdued footfall, which impacted the like-for-like performance," Chief Executive Karen Hubbard said.
The streets of New York were where I worked out the 700 zany ideas that fizzed in my brain daily; where I stretched out my depression and anxiety, one footfall at a time.
These could be shopping malls that want additional footfall or large businesses that want their business parks to be connected in different ways or want a 10-minute transfer to a specific airport.
The company, with operations in more than 32 international markets, said the impact of the coronavirus outbreak remained uncertain, but added it saw reduced footfall in Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau in February.
The protests have cost over 12 million pounds ($16 million)to businesses in London's West End, famous for its theaters and shops, with some seeing a 25 percent drop in sales and footfall.
Rising competition from food-focused pubs in recent years and a drop in visitors to retail shopping parks, where many of its outlets are located, has hit store footfall of Restaurant Group's brands.
Myant is developing socks that not only comfortably insulate and protect your feet, but also give them targeted compression, measure your posture and footfall, and even heat your feet automatically when they get cold.
And while Amazon has been using data to optimize its supply chain for years, traditional fashion retail and brands are still saddled managing networks of bricks and mortar stores where they're seeing falling footfall.
"One of the more common initiatives is [also] to add in supermarkets and grocery stores, on the basis that consumers use these regularly and drive footfall," GlobalData Retail Managing Director Neil Saunders told CNBC.
It said 78 stores were shut due to government-mandated closures in Europe, which accounts for 40% of its weekly sales forecasts, and that it was seeing sharp falls in U.S. and UK footfall.
Announced in February, it will see Lloyds invest 3.0 billion pounds ($3.9 billion) into technology and staff as it looks to adapt to the increasing popularity of digital banking and declining footfall in branches.
RBS said the redundancies and closures were necessary because many of its branches were too close to one another - within 0.6 and 2.5 miles - and because changing consumer habits have caused a drop in footfall.
"We'll have to wait until the end of the year to see what... footfall disappears when we move these customers out," he said in response to a question on the size of any potential cuts.
New Bond Street in London had the fourth highest rents globally at $1,321/square foot, as footfall figures remained healthy and retailers were willing to pay a premium to secure the sites, Cushman & Wakefield said.
Walking on Water, a new documentary by director Andrey Paounov, chronicles the making of this larger-than-life installation, which boasted a footfall of 1.2 million people over the course of its 16-day run.
The company has seen profits shrink and stocks pile up in recent years due to slowing footfall at its core-brand stores and as it has not been fast enough to react to demand swings.
Among stocks, Target Corp rose 6.2 percent in premarket trading after the retailer reported better-than-expected rise in holiday-quarter sales, driven by strong digital sales and higher customer footfall at its stores. Ctrip.
The government has also taken the step of abolishing business rates for tens of thousands of small and medium-sized which are likely to be damaged by a loss of footfall during the coronavirus outbreak.
In our projections however we conservatively factor in a gradual decrease to below 337118% (adjusted for potential LTI payments) by 33712016 due to potential gross margin sacrifices to fend off competition and protect footfall rates.
"Given continued very disappointing footfall, and despite significant cost efficiencies being achieved, we are today entering into a consultation with store colleagues to consider closing our 20 stores ahead of lease expiry," N Brown said.
The second outlay is for a 38 percent stake in Shiji Retail Information Technology, Reuters reports, which works with hotels and high-street retailers on data-related services to increase customer footfall, grow engagement and more.
In order to attract more footfall, alongside the exhibitions a series of events will take place, including a screening of "Orlando", a nine-hour reading lead by Ms Winterson and a cabaret performance of the book.
The update highlights the continuing impact of weak footfall across retail destinations, the disruptive nature of online as well as discount players, and the need for a differentiated product offering, Liberum analysts said in a note.
"The integration of services like laundry and study spaces may seem a little wacky, but it's exactly the type of thing that will drive footfall, especially among younger shoppers," GlobalData Retail managing director Neil Saunders said.
Footfall — the number of people going to shops — also declined in October, marking an "ugly start" to the fourth quarter ahead of the Black Friday promotions in late November and Christmas sales next month, BDO said.
It's not all just added utility though; TfL says it will also use the information to enhance its in-station marketing analytics — and, it hopes, top up its revenues — by tracking footfall around ad units and billboards.
UBS analyst Heidi Richardson has said the price cuts at Frankie & Benny's will not drive the required footfall increase from the core family-value-oriented customer as Restaurant Group's rivals' offerings are on average 22 percent cheaper.
"The Christmas trading period continued to be challenging given the general election and weak consumer confidence, the impact of which can be seen in the footfall decline experienced in the period," Chief Executive Officer Karen Hubbard said.
Argos' advanced online ordering system and logistics could strengthen Sainsbury's online groceries business, while introducing a click and collect service for Argos orders in Sainsbury's stores would give customers more delivery options and increase footfall in stores.
And in May, Flutter Entertainment, formerly Paddy Power Betfair, forecast its revenue from fixed-odds machines would slump 43%, but said it did not see substantial changes in footfall at its shops as a result of the change.
They'll use the houses and the fences to hunt the deer, I've watched when there's a 747 flying over, and she will use the sound of that jet to mask her footfall as she sneaks up on deer.
Flash campaigns that are simple to run via Tail could include a merchant offering 50 per cent off on a rainy day, or putting up an offer for the next 30 minutes during an unexpected lull in footfall.
"In common with many UK retailers, we continue to anticipate an extremely challenging retail landscape, particularly within our physical stores, as a result of reduced footfall and rising costs," Chief Executive Officer Brian Brick said in a statement.
"For example, in the case of one of our portfolio companies which is using outdoor advertising to drive demand, they are cutting this spending significantly given the drop in footfall and switching some of the spend to digital."
"Given that Debenhams, M&S and House of Fraser are disappearing from the high street, Bonmarche was in a good position to be the 'last man standing', meaning we could have seen an increase in footfall," Mumford said.
LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Sunny weather encouraged British shoppers onto the high street over Easter, with footfall across retail destinations rising 6.5 percent on Friday, 1.2 percent on Saturday and 8.4 percent on Monday morning, research company Springboard said.
"At this stage we've not seen any slowdown in demand from Chinese clients," Kering financial director Jean-Marc Duplaix told reporters, adding that the uncertainty had not hit footfall in stores but that the group would remain "very vigilant".
"Fabric has processed six-and-a-half-million people over a 5003-year period, which is a pretty much unblemished record versus footfall, making it one of the safest and best-managed venues in the world," he told me.
Here is a young woman, Johnny's daughter, on place names: "'Fullum,' they said, a dead footfall, flour shaken in a Tupperware box (unlike sugar, with its quick shoosh, which to her mind was the sound of Chelsea.)" Good grief.
In "Variations," he and two colleagues, Brittany DeStefano and Gabe Winns Ortiz, bring off marvels to excerpts from Bach's Goldberg Variations, mostly tying a footfall to every keyboard note and yet always revealing fresh resources of pressure, idiom, physicality.
The group said the remainder of the Primark estate, including Britain which represents 41% of sales, has seen like-for-like sales declines over the last two weeks which accelerated over the past few days due to reduced footfall.
As more companies across nearly every industry accommodate an increasing number of employees wishing to forego the morning commute and office pantry footfall, remote work has become an increasingly easy and breathlessly viable option for many who seek it.
The group said the remainder of the Primark estate, including Britain which represents 41% of sales, has seen like-for-like sales declines over the last two weeks which accelerated over the past few days due to reduced footfall.
LONDON (Reuters) - Shoppers deserted Britain's high streets last week, with footfall down 41% according to Springboard, after the government advised people to stay at home and a growing number of businesses were either told to or chose to shut.
But it's nowhere near as interested in any of those things as it is interested in the way each footfall lands on broken ground, how you move differently when you're carrying extra weight, depending on where you are carrying it.
J.C. Penney - which is in turnaround mode and refocusing more on clothing as it tries to counter falling footfall - said in May that sales at stores open for at least a year had fallen more than expected during the first quarter.
PARIS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - French department store chain Galeries Lafayette said the start of the Christmas shopping season at its main Galeries Lafayette and BHV stores in Paris was "encouraging", with footfall and revenue up over the last two weekends.
The lender's efforts to adapt to declining footfall in branches and the growing use of mobile and digital banking have seen it increasingly focus on technology and tech-savvy staff at the expense of bricks-and-mortar and manual processes.
Saudi Arabia believes the sixth-century city of Al Ula and 131 pristine 2,000-year-old Nabataean tombs at Mada'in Saleh will one day match the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, or the ruins at Petra, Jordan, in terms of footfall.
LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - Shoppers deserted Britain's high streets last week, with footfall down 41% according to Springboard, after the government advised people to stay at home and a growing number of businesses were either told to or chose to shut.
There must be data-sharing on footfall and spending between landlords and tenants, which will require big investments in data analytics, says James Pitchon, Executive Director of real estate consulting firm CBRE in Bangkok, noting that "retail's not dead, but it's very complicated".
The locations included a public library with an annual footfall in excess of 1.6 million people, where people — including infants — sat under ceiling-mounted loudspeakers, and a museum that receives over 3 million visitors per year (the report didn't specify the city).
Hedge funds are also among its customers, according to Walle — he says they're using insights derived from the platform to underpin stock bets by being able to collate dynamic footfall data and estimate a company's quarterly performance ahead of its earnings report.
"November's highly cautionary interim statement, followed by an atrocious weather hit to High Street footfall during the run-up to the crucial Christmas trading period, was bound to result in a profit warning," Beaufort Securities analyst, Barry Gibb, said in a note.
SS: And the retail scenario, and you'll be watching it with the rest of us, the footfall at major stores is very worrying, but actually the digital sales, the online sales are still very healthily double digit in many cases, as well.
H&M has seen profits shrink and inventories bank up in recent years as footfall slowed at its core-brand stores in the face of a shift online and mounting competition, while the firm has struggled to react quickly enough to demand swings.
Year-on-year footfall to date was up by 1.2 percent in its UK malls, Intu said, adding that it had an opportunity to improve the tenant mix at its malls by re-letting stores formerly leased to collapsed department stores company BHS.
H&M has seen profits shrink and inventories bank up in recent years due to slowing footfall at its core brand's stores in the face of a shift online and mounting competition, as well as difficulties in reacting fast enough to demand swings.
The changes are part of the bank's latest three-year strategy, which will see it invest 3.0 billion pounds ($3.9 billion) into technology and staff as it looks to adapt to the increasing popularity of digital banking and declining footfall in branches.
Over the past 12 months to Wednesday's close, H&M's shares had gained 37% on hopes that a recovery was taking hold after slowing footfall at its core H&M-branded stores caused years of sliding profits, mounting inventories and shrinking market value.
It can look hair-raising when a fell racer hurtles the shortest way down a steep pitch of scree, but this version of running, where every step is different and you must pick your spot for every footfall, feels healthy and natural.
It has 25+ US clients at this point, says co-founder and CEO Thomas Walle, who are using its location data platform for all sorts of purposes — from targeted marketing to footfall mapping for city, real estate and retail planning, and even for shorting stock.
Funds trading in individual firms' shares can infer information on sales from satellite photos of their car parks, and on footfall in shops from data bought from mobile-phone and credit-card companies, rather than having to rely on company reports or quarterly earnings statements.
Add to that, when your target customers are building owners, chances are they might also be in the business of renting real estate to commercial clients too (who may not be so happy about the prospect of reduced footfall to their bricks-and-mortar stores… ).
Curved tile walls amplify every footfall and shout, not to mention the indecipherable blare of the PA. Eventually a train rumbles through at 94 decibels or more, announced by the whine of a motor, the screech of brakes, and the clack of wheels on steel.
"The Company's trading in March-to-date has inevitably slowed as the outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted footfall both in the UK and internationally," the UK-listed company said, adding that group retail revenue had decreased 5% year-on-year so far in March.
"We have seen more intensive discounting from our competitors and a materially lower level of footfall across the high streets and shopping centres of the UK. Despite this, we have resisted discounting pressures," Moss Bros Chief Executive Brian Brick said in a trading statement.
However, the outbreak of the coronavirus in China that worsened in early 21 is having "a significant impact on footfall and revenues in all shopping malls in China where Moncler is present and on Chinese tourism around the world," the company said on Monday.
PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Footfall in the Paris region's shopping malls dropped by 12% over the past week year-on-year as the crucial Christmas season was spoiled by transport strikes against the French government's pension reform, the CNCC shopping mall federation said on Thursday.
These trends, reflected in weak trading performance by leading UK retailer Next and in a 9.3% drop in overall UK retail footfall in December, are increasing competitive pressures and mean any benefits from cost-cutting will be ploughed into new investment or used to keep prices low.
"When combined with the structural difficulties for UK retailers, including high street footfall, and our exposure to the weakness of the pound against the U.S. dollar, these factors make the current outlook for FY13 somewhat uncertain and therefore hard to predict," the company said in a statement.
In that time, Scott said, it's had a major impact on museum patronage: "It's increased footfall, it's changed the demographic of the museum visitors because younger people are coming for the first time in a long time, it's opened up a new queer audience," he stated.
No one yelled after him; there was only his footfall, blood thundering in his ears; he triggered a few motion lights and so moved closer to the water; he ran at full force for a minute before he realized he wasn't sure where he was going.
"When combined with the structural difficulties for UK retailers, including high street footfall, and our exposure to the weakness of the pound against the U.S. dollar, these factors make the current outlook for FY17 somewhat uncertain and therefore hard to predict," the company said in a statement.
The company also said it was reviewing coronavirus' impact on its supply chains for winter wear coming from the Far East and the further reductions in footfall it could see on UK high streets, but at the moment could not estimate its effect on its business.
RBS, which is more than 70 percent owned by the British taxpayer following a 2007 bailout, said the redundancies and closures were necessary because many of its branches were too close to one another - within 0.6 and 2.5 miles - and because changing consumer behaviors have seen footfall numbers plummet.
"Buffalo faces intensifying competition from concept replication, a lapping of lower gas prices, declining NFL viewership, fading offline footfall and a widening away versus at-home food inflation gap that will likely continue to pressure comps in 2017," Jeremy Scott, an analyst with CLSA, wrote in a research note Tuesday.
In a section on the legal basis for processing the Wi-Fi connection data, TfL writes now that its 'legal ground' is two-fold: So, presumably, you can file 'increasing revenue around adverts in stations by being able to track nearby footfall' under 'helping to deliver (read: fund) the mayor's transport strategy'.
Listen, a flap where a gate shuts, where the next step is coldly placed without hope—& crackles rising where your footfall goes—oh I am huge—I would take back names give up the weight of being give up place delete there delete possess , go, love, notice, shape, drift, to be in minutes once again, in just one hour again.
Their works included "The Mote in God's Eye" (21984), an outer-space saga; "Lucifer's Hammer" (21959), about humanity's attempt to regroup after a cataclysm; "Inferno" (22003) and "Escape From Hell" (2009), related stories inspired by the hell envisioned by Dante; and "Footfall," which made it to the top of The New York Times's paperback best-seller list in May 1986.
The link between local businesses and scooter rides is a strong one: Bird says it found that 58% of all the rides through its app start or end at a local business, and claims that businesses in all of its areas of operation — it's now live in some 100 cities — say that the presence of Bird scooters outside their establishments have increased footfall.
All dim, unwoken, shut as the Duchess's (née Clare Singleton's) dust-caked woodcut gramophone as the frail jail of Limoges and miniature salt shakers belling at my footfall recalled country wenches doing the quadrille with speculators' sons, and Ben the tavern houseboy, in canary pantaloons wafting a fan sewn from the tails of fifty peahens to keep off the Luciferian flies.
There's a raised wood-effect floor in one room used to measure gait and footfall; an 'echo room' where ultrasound takes echocardiograms of a voyager's beating heart; one with a DXA (bone mineral density) scanner; and one with a giant MRI machine supplied by GE, where clients can select the music and hue of the lighting to make their scan—which can last up to 275 minutes—as pleasant as possible.
CO.UK PLC - COVID-19 UPDATE * WORKS CO UK PLC - ALL NON-ESSENTIAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED * WORKS CO UK PLC - LAST WEEK, DESPITE DECLINING HIGH STREET FOOTFALL, GROUP EXPERIENCED A SIGNIFICANT UPLIFT IN SALES, BOTH IN STORES AND ONLINE * WORKS CO UK PLC - DISCUSSIONS WITH LANDLORDS WILL BE HELD REGARDING MEASURES TO REDUCE NET CASH OUTFLOW ON STORE RENTS WHILST STORES ARE CLOSED * WORKS CO UK PLC - .
It is 4 AM outside Globe Burger House at Gatwick Airport—the kind of place you only get where cultures morass into one amorphous blob, where diverse footfall sands away all the rough edges of cultural identity, a lineup of restaurants so inoffensive and nationality-less that they could be anywhere, London or Bangalore or Mississippi—and I cannot stop looking at an old man sitting alone and eating a patty, chewing with his mouth open, chok-chok-chok like a toddler.
Those of us with animals in our lives don't like to think of ourselves as having expectations for them, but we do: We want their loyalty and dedication, and we want these things to be expressed in a way that we can understand; we want the bird chirping when we walk in the door, the dog trotting toward us, drooling and hopeful, the cat rumbling with pleasure as she butts her head against our fist, the horse nickering and shuffling in his stall as he hears our footfall.

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