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Oct
2025
September 2025: Buying Footfall
September 2025 was the month the industry stopped pretending the autumn would “settle down”. The schools went back, corporate diaries tightened, and everyone started quietly costing out Christmas labour with one eye on the 26 November Budget. Then the Bank of England effectively said “don’t bank on more rate cuts this year”, which is a polite way of telling operators to keep sweating cash and keep sweating standards.
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