Bank of Ireland’s latest debit and credit card spending statistics show a 99 per cent jump in the volume of spending on toys compared with the previous month with spending on clothing (+37 per cent) and groceries (+15 per cent) both up from October.
Spending in restaurants was up 3 per cent on last November with consumers “making up for lost time”, according to Jilly Clarkin, head of SME markets at Bank of Ireland.CEO of An Post David McRedmond joins Ciaran Hancock to discuss the ongoing row between An Post and the UK’s Post Office over the implementation of post-Brexit customs rules, which is resulting in thousands of online purchases being returned to British retailers.
In Longford, meanwhile, the only county to record negative spending in October, card spending increased 16 per cent in the month of November.
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