Thousands of shoppers and pub drinkers are set to spend £1.5bn to help boost the UK’s broke economy on the first Saturday after lockdown.
On the first non-working day since lockdown, dubbed ‘Stupor Saturday’, high streets and pubs are expected to be packed. The boost comes as the NHS prepares to take delivery of two million vaccine doses by the end of next week.
Shoppers are expected to be out in force, making the most of cut-price bargains as the biggest shopping centres in the country open for the first time since lockdown.
More than 300,0000 shoppers are expected to head to the capital’s West End while 150,000 are due to flock to Birmingham’s Bullring and 120,000 at Manchester’s Trafford Centre.
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