Visits to U.S. retail stores ticked up last week as some states began lifting restrictions imposed to fight the coronavirus pandemic, according to cellphone location information aggregated by data firm Unacast.
FILE PHOTO: People line up at a safe social distance outside the grocery store amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Medford, Massachusetts, U.S., April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Americans made more than 103 million stops at retail spots nationwide on Friday, April 25, up from 86 million on the previous Friday, but 20% below the previous year, Unacast said. It will take time for any trend in the data to become established, but recent days have shown glimmers of a response. Traffic to retail spots in Georgia averaged about half the 2019 level from April 1 to April 19. The gap narrowed to around 40% over the weekend, the data showed.
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