{"id":185907,"date":"2025-12-16T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185907\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:23:09","slug":"retail-spending-down-on-last-year-before-busy-christmas-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185907\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail spending down on last year before busy Christmas period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zcDwnTMHmhvKtr\" style=\"display:none\">Proffit said hospitality spending was also expected to rise further this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zcDwnTMHmhvKtr\" style=\"display:none\">Spending at retail merchants (excluding hospitality and food and liquor) totalled $549 million in the first 14 days of December, down 5.7% compared on last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zcDwnTMHmhvKtr\" style=\"display:none\"> \u201cNotably, some merchant sectors surpassed their Black Friday weekend spending peak last Saturday, including gift stores, toy and games retailers, bookshops, marine stores, florists and jewellery stores,\u201d Proffit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zcDwnTMHmhvKtr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHowever, almost all merchants within this group are anticipated to reach new highs for the year in the remaining days before Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"zcDwnTMHmhvKtr\" style=\"display:none\">Spending across the 14 days in Auckland\/Northland was down 0.2% ($771 million) compared with last year, while Wellington experienced the biggest drop, 4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zcDwnTMHmhvKtr\" style=\"display:none\">Spending was highest in the West Coast (+3.9%), Whanganui (+3.3%) and Otago (+2.9%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proffit said hospitality spending was also expected to rise further this week. Spending at retail merchants (excluding hospitality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9218,138,11776,18399,6097,685,111,139,69,90,5353,644,312,8262,107370,379],"class_list":["post-185907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-before","tag-business","tag-busy","tag-christmas","tag-down","tag-last","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-period","tag-retail","tag-says","tag-spending","tag-worldline","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}