Retail footfall in British highstreets bounced back from the pandemic-driven sluggish shopper numbers around January 2023. But despite the recovering numbers, high streets still struggled with diminishing visits and frequent fluctuations. In the most recently reported period (June 2025), there was an decrease of ***** percent of visitors to UK high streets. Similar footfall trends appeared in shopping centers, as well. Retail locations out of favor With more and more shoppers turning to the convenience of online shopping, the landscape of high street retailing is transforming as store closures are dealing many retail and leisure store categories hard blows. This was exacerberated by the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In 2024, there were over ****** store closures in the United Kingdom. Store closures before the pandemic Even before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit, UK retail sector had been going through what many have dubbed as "the retail apocalypse". Many retailers saw store closures and ensuing job losses a year before the pandemic. Among these, Poundland had the highest number of staff lay-offs resulting from store closures.

In this dataset, you will find three Excel files (store data, customer data, sale data).

This dataset is suitable for practicing EDA and finding relationships within tables and features.

I obtained this dataset from the YouTube channel "https://www.youtube.com/@AlexTheAnalyst">Alex The Analyst