Marie-France Benoit, Director, National Insight and Innovation, Avison Young, discusses the real estate company’s latest Vitality Index looking at how busy the Boxing Day period was this year.
Benoit talks about how retail foot traffic was up in Canada during the Boxing Day period, why foot traffic is increasing and what it means for 2023.
The Avison Young Vitality Index tracks retail foot traffic in 52 markets across North America using anonymized mobility data.
Full video can be seen here.
Here’s a link to Avison Young’s Boxing Day Graphic
(Mario Toneguzzi is Managing Editor of Canada’s Podcast. He has more than 40 years of experience as a daily newspaper writer, columnist, and editor. He worked for 35 years at the Calgary Herald, covering sports, crime, politics, health, faith, city and breaking news, and business. He works as well as a freelance writer for several national publications and as a consultant in communications and media relations/training. Mario was named in 2021 as one of the Top 10 Business Journalists in the World by PR News – the only Canadian to make the list)
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