Visits to U.S. stores, restaurants stall as concern over economic recovery grows

Foot traffic to U.S. restaurants and stores showed little improvement last week, high frequency data show, and signs emerged of deepening stress for small businesses as economists worry the recovery from coronavirus lockdowns continues to slow.Employee records on 55,000 small businesses maintained by Homebase https://joinhomebase.com/data showed the number of people working declined for a second week in a row.Data from cellphone tracking firm Unacast https://www.unacast.com/covid19/covid-19-reta