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Bargain hunters spent $ 62.2 million on Boxing Day this year, the latest figures from Paymark show.
But retail spending, excluding food, beverages and hospitality, fell 2.2% this year compared to last year, as people spent more than $ 166 million on Christmas Eve.
Pre-Christmas spending was strong, increasing 5 percent for the five weeks ending December 27, which included the busy Black Friday weekend in November.
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Shoppers at the David Jones department store at Westfield Newmarket in Auckland on Boxing Day 2020.
Auckland residents bought a storm, and the region spent more than $ 28 million on Boxing Day.
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* Spending figures down for South Canterbury over Black Friday weekend
* More than $ 650 million spent during this year’s Black Friday weekend
* Spending during closing was reduced by 90% outside of supermarkets and liquor stores.
Spending in Whanganui and Waikato on Boxing Day increased more than 7 percent from last year, but retailers on the South Island, particularly Marlborough, the West Coast, and Southland, saw large declines, with figures falling more than 13 percent.
Traders directly exposed to the tourism sector saw the effects of Covid-19, spending generally below the levels of the previous year.
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The Plaza is overflowing with shoppers looking for their Boxing Day bargains.
Sales in food and liquor services fell 0.5 percent from last year over the past five weeks.
Black Friday was popular again this year and shoppers spent more than $ 650 million during the last weekend of November, 4% more than in 2019, according to Paymark.
On Boxing Day, an NZ Post spokeswoman said the courier expected to deliver around 800,000 packages this week and about 250,000 of them were expected to be directly related to Boxing Day sales.
Trade told me that at 8am on Saturday there were 4400 unwanted gifts for sale on the website.
Spokesperson Millie Silvester says they include a Mazda Demio in the wrong color, an “S # £% piece” from a Christmas cookie and a pair of Apple Airpods Pro from a father whose daughter insisted she would prefer the standard version. .
