Record footfall in city centres on Black Friday

People turned out in force to shop on Black Friday. The increase in visitor numbers in Swedish city centres reached record levels, according to measurements carried out in several cities.

Crowded city-centre street on Black Friday

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People turned out in force to shop on Black Friday. The increase in visitor numbers in Swedish city centres reached record levels, according to measurements carried out in several cities.

Bumbee Labs reports this in a post on Instagram. The company’s measurements show 30 percent more visitors than normal on Kungsgatan in Stockholm during Black Friday.

Largest increase in Ludvika

In Västerås, visitor numbers rose by as much as 40 percent, but the largest increase of all was in Ludvika, where 58 percent more people than normal visited the central parts of the town that Friday.

Overall, the cities where Bumbee Labs measures visitor flows all had significantly higher figures than normal.

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