Shopper numbers in Scotland increased in the final month of last year – although December figures tracking the number of people in stores showed it was still below pre-pandemic levels.
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) said it had been an “encouraging end to the year” for the sector, with the “best results since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020”.
However, its director David Lonsdale warned that “sustaining the improvement and turning browsing into buying will be tricky given the ongoing cost-of-living crunch”.
