The worst of the coronavirus pandemic may be over for shopping malls
January 13, 2020 | Dion Rabouin | Axios
Holiday traffic at malls was surprisingly not terrible, data tracking firm Placer.ai says in a new report analyzing foot traffic from more than two dozen malls across the country. The findings are “not as bleak as many had feared.”
By the numbers: Mall visits were within 30% of 2019’s pace in October, the smallest decline since February (when traffic was up 10.7% over 2019), but the resurgence of COVID-19 cases caused visitor counts to reverse in November, declining 42.2% year over year.
