Latest figures from Network Rail show that retail sales at Britain’s biggest and busiest stations have grown for the tenth quarter in a row, highlighting the changing habits of Britain’s modern consumers.
Like-for-like sales at Network Rail’s 18 managed stations for July to September 2014 jumped by 6.23% compared to the same period in 2013. The increase is in stark contrast to high street sales, which fell by 0.05% according to the British Retail Consortium.
London Waterloo and Liverpool Lime Street were the two best performing Network Rail managed stations, recording 18.73% and 14.10% sales growth respectively, while Birmingham New Street has benefited from the first phase of the station’s major redevelopment which launched in April last year, recording the third highest like-for-like sales growth of 12.23%.
The results show stations both inside and outside of London continue to record solid gains with Charing Cross (11.58%), Glasgow (10.76%), Edinburgh (5.43%) and Manchester (4.95%), all moving forward strongly. Specialist food and gifting brands are growing significantly as part of the station retail mix, with like-for-like sales increases of 18.08% and 14.58%. Pubs and Bars also grew by 11.94% compared to this time last year.
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