that spending is down, but visitor numbers to the city are up by 24%. i think the picture is positive in terms of people are using the city, are coming into the city. it s negative in terms of the pressures that they re all under for their personal finances. back at the beer shop, chris has a customer. he s still weighing up if it s worth renewing his lease. but he says it s businesses like his, which helps cities like exeter thrive. independent shops would bring vibrancy and culture and just a different flavour to exeter. it s what makes exeter unique and yeah, more empty shops is not going to bring anybody here.
age uk told us that there just aren t enough people doing this job, like social care generally. it s a vital service in these cold and challenging times. guy lynn, bbc london. for many small independent retailers the run up to christmas can be make or break time. exeter chamber of commerce says there are mixed messages from the high street with visitor numbers up but spending down. kevin hay has been to exeter to talk to some independent shop keepers and shoppers about how the cost of living crisis is impacting their christmas plans. stocking up for christmas. chris harper runs a specialist beer shop on fore street. he says sales are down by around 30% on last year. 2021 was was really good. i think still coming, the bounce back from covid was in effect. but this year, this year has been a lot harder than any of the covid years.
of normality. and while you see that some of the traders have come out, they tell me there is a steady but very slow trickle of people but there are caveat here, but not russian, only a there are caveat here, but not russian, onlya ukrainian. there are caveat here, but not russian, only a ukrainian. they are hoping people will come to the market again, will come. in the city, you still get roblox, distill the required but they are the first sparks of life despite the fact that for the last two nights, they have been russian strikes. the last ones in the early hours of this morning, just about eight kilometres away from here in the south of kyiv where the russians say they destroyed a manufacturing facility so you ve got this interesting sort of tension where russian are threatening the capital that people are still desperate to try and return to some i it is the beer shop is shut behind you, is there restrictions on alcohol because of the war? there has been. alcohol because of the w
Ludwig’s Gastro Pub in Rijeka might well be the sort of place that appears to be following a trend, but in truth it’s more about setting a trend. A part of the Kaltenberg Adria brewery, this industrial styled building is constructed such that diners can see the vats in which their beer is made.