{"id":183320,"date":"2025-12-09T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183320\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:01:18","slug":"increased-festive-spending-predicted-midwest-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183320\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased festive spending predicted &#8211; Midwest Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Retailers are being urged to prepare for a Christmas rush with an increase in spending predicted this year.<\/p>\n<p>The latest \u2018AIB Spend Trend\u2019 found Christmas spending rose by 9 per cent in 2024, with shoppers on course to break festive records again this month.<\/p>\n<p>80 million AIB card transactions were carried out last December, with total spend reaching 3.9 billion euro.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Moynihan from AIB says inflation and increased consumer confidence means we could spend more in the coming weeks:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NEWSTALK202512090046.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NEWSTALK202512090046.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Retailers are being urged to prepare for a Christmas rush with an increase in spending predicted this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-183320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}