great news for smaller places? brute great news for smaller places? we can start great news for smaller places? - can start trying to delve into some of those figures. high streets were slightly up, which you can kind of tell from plan b, during the course of last week more people have been working from home, perhaps easier to p0p up working from home, perhaps easier to pop up to the shops during your lunch break at home. of course you re not in the centre of town, like central london. we just got figures in today. the weekend before christmas is the last saturday to be able to go shopping before christmas day, normally a big period for the retailers, something they had pinned their hopes on. however, it is not necessarily good news. across the uk it is down 1.8% lower than the previous saturday. this is not even in comparison to pre pandemic levels, this isjust last week compared to now. that is for high street shopping centres, all down.