John Lewis topped a record-breaking Christmas week with its first double-digit sales uplift the following week, the first of the half-year to January 31.
The department stores clocked up sales of£18 million on December 27, and momentum carried forward to deliver a 12.7 per cent year-on-year sales lift in the week to January 3.
Overall, FootFall said shopper numbers were up 2.4 per cent year on year in the week to January 4, after just 0.2 per cent in the previous week.
SPSL confirmed December 27 was the busiest shopping day of 2003.
The CBI retail survey had 54 per cent of businesses reporting better sales in the first three weeks of December, compared with the same period last year, while 21 per cent said they were down, producing a positive balance of 33 per cent.
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