{"id":671609,"date":"2026-01-03T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:34:10","slug":"shoppers-continue-to-flood-glasgow-for-new-year-sales-bargains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671609\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers continue to flood Glasgow for New Year sales bargains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Pictures taken on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/buchanan-street\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buchanan Street<\/a> today (January 3) show hundreds of shoppers braving the cold in search of a bargain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This festive season&#8217;s sales have been a success after Boxing Day was called a \u201cbumper day\u201d for all UK retail destinations, as data showed shopper footfall was up 4.4% on last year, making it the strongest increase in more than a decade.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  High streets enjoyed a 3.6% increase in footfall on last Boxing Day, while retail parks saw an 8.8% uplift.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Buchanan Street on January 3, 2026. (Image: Robert Perry)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Buchanan Street on January 3, 2026. (Image: Robert Perry)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Buchanan Street on January 3, 2026. (Image: Robert Perry)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Buchanan Street on January 3, 2026. (Image: Robert Perry)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Buchanan Street on January 3, 2026. (Image: Robert Perry)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Buchanan Street on January 3, 2026. (Image: Robert Perry)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Buchanan Street on January 3, 2026. (Image: Robert Perry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictures taken on Buchanan Street today (January 3) show hundreds of shoppers braving the cold in search of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-671609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115832374070582222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}