England goes shopping and drinking
Will Wagstaff • 27 April 2021
Having fun makes welcome return
We have analysed the latest Google Community Mobility data to see the impact of the lifting of restrictions on non-essential shopping, pubs. cafes, restaurants and leisure activities in England. Google's data is fascinating. They use (opted in) location data from mobile phones to plot where people have gone.
We compared where people went the weekend before the lifting of restrictions in England on 12th April with where they went the weekend after. We see huge increases in the number of people going out and about, doing some shopping, having a drink and a meal and having fun.
Lots of people went to Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock. Not necessarily everyone's idea of fun.
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