Footfall Definition

Why should I count my footfall?

Calculating footfall is a key metric for store and senior managers wanting to increase sales and drive profits up. By counting footfall, retailers can identify at any time of day – how many purchasing opportunities they have in-store and crucially, by incorporating that with sales data – how many they are missing.
Knowing your hourly, daily and weekly retail footfall can give retailers that extra edge to target peak hours, convert browsers into customers and ultimately optimize store performance.

Once your retail footfall is being tracked and measured, we can then bring in our experts who can analyze your data to identify customer trends and find out what is happening in-store and why. With these invaluable customer insights:

Store managers can:

• Understand what factors are driving store sales
• Match your staffing pattern with footfall
• Make better use of budgets
• Discover what are your worst performing days in terms of conversion rates
• Evaluate and target poor performing hours to improve conversion rates

Area Managers can:

• Find out if marketing initiatives delivered more traffic to stores,
• Discover which shops provide the greatest opportunity for growth,
• Measure the effect new service training programs have on improving conversion rates?
• Evaluate loyalty card events – do they drive additional traffic, when should you have them, are they buying or simply just enjoying the event?

Head office can:

• Plan with confidence for the future
• Understand customer trends
• Assess the real impact of a new store concept or refit
• Use Footfall patterns for discussions during lease negotiations
• Evaluate and optimize store layout performance
• Measure effectiveness of changes to the marketing mix
• Understand the impact of store promotions
• Measure the effectiveness of marketing spend
• Find out how you are performing against your competitors with our RTIs
• Identify brand strength – do your stores follow the same footfall patterns as your competitors