{"id":187774,"date":"2025-12-17T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187774\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:17:07","slug":"from-labubus-to-robot-vacuums-afterpay-shares-new-zealands-quirkiest-buys-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187774\/","title":{"rendered":"From Labubus to robot vacuums: Afterpay shares New Zealand\u2019s quirkiest buys in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
LED facemasks were particularly popular with women too, who bought 69% of the nearly 430 sold through the payment service.<\/p>\n
Labubus were among the top-selling items in New Zealand, according to Afterpay.<\/p>\n
Gen Z led the way with sales of cowboy boots, heatless curler sets, digital cameras and walking pads, but didn\u2019t account for over 50% of the sales of any of these products.<\/p>\n
Gen Y, however, dominated purchases of hammocks, with Manurewa, Papatoetoe and Henderson being hotspots, and robot vacuums.<\/p>\n
Manurewa appeared as a top sale spot for these tech helpers, but also appeared in six of the 11 products included.<\/p>\n
Gen Xers had a strong uptake in Smart Rings, buying 22% of the nearly 3000 sold through Afterpay, with the wearable tech being particularly popular in Papatoetoe, Henderson and Flat Bush.<\/p>\n
Emily Marshall, a senior director at Afterpay, said, \u201cKiwis voted with their wallets for joy, comfort and self-expression\u201d this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfterpay\u2019s quirkiest purchases of 2025 paint a picture of a country that\u2019s savvy, culturally plugged-in and unafraid to embrace contradictions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a real-time snapshot of how we live, spend and express ourselves – and that\u2019s what makes this data so uniquely Kiwi.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LED facemasks were particularly popular with women too, who bought 69% of the nearly 430 sold through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,67066,3391,71,305,78,19474,118003,80177,300,117,111,43,139,69,118004,28257,5149,11393,180,12633,1852,1961,61,72921,4740,379,24750,2963],"class_list":["post-187774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-afterpay","tag-buys","tag-from","tag-have","tag-in","tag-items","tag-labubus","tag-manurewa","tag-money","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-quirkiest","tag-quirky","tag-robot","tag-robots","tag-shares","tag-spent","tag-taup","tag-this","tag-to","tag-types","tag-vacuums","tag-year","tag-zealanders","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187774","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=187774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}