Consumers appeared to be seeking out better value in their shopping habits last month, according to the latest Spending Pulse report from Bank of Ireland.<\/p>\n
Overall debit and credit card spending by the bank’s customers was flat last month, however it saw a near two-and-a-half times increase in spending at charity and vintage shops compared to July 2025.<\/p>\n
Card spending at discount stores rose by 43%, it said, while there was an 80% increase in spending at online marketplaces.<\/p>\n
That was despite a 5% decline in online spending during the month.<\/p>\n
The month’s hot weather also prompted a shift in consumer behaviour year-on-year, with spending on camping equipment up 55%, while spending in confectionery shops rose by 53%.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile a mixture of cost-consciousness, weather and safety concerns may have contributed to declines in BoI card spending in some tourist destinations.<\/p>\n
The bank noted sharp drops in spending in the United Arab Emirates, down 21.3% year-on-year, while spending in Australia and New Zealand also fell (31.4% and 14% respectively).<\/p>\n
Other traditionally popular summer destinations also saw spending declines including; Spain (down 3.7%), France (down 3.7%), Portugal (down 3.4%) and the USA (down 2%).<\/p>\n
Spending to the likes of Lithuania, Romania and Estonia rose, however.<\/p>\n
In Ireland, meanwhile, Mayo’s historic All-Ireland win prompted a significant spike in spending in the county.<\/p>\n
It recorded a more-than 1,000% increase in pub spending in Castlebar across the Sunday of the final and the Monday of the team’s homecoming celebrations.<\/p>\n
Spending in pubs in Westport was up 350% during the same period, while spending in the rest of the county rose by 118%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumers appeared to be seeking out better value in their shopping habits last month, according to the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-589765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589765","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=589765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}