{"id":229714,"date":"2026-01-12T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229714\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:49:07","slug":"boxing-day-shopping-falls-12-4-in-2025-loses-title-of-most-popular-shopping-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229714\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day shopping falls 12.4% in 2025, loses title of most popular shopping day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut for most other non-food stores in our network, their busiest days were still in the two days prior to Christmas Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Figures showed the largest fall in Boxing Day shopping was in the West Coast region, with a 29.4% fall compared to the same day in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Wellington saw a 28.7% fall in spending compared to 2024, while Taranaki registered a 15.1% fall in spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Across the top of the North Island, Northland and Auckland saw an 11.6% fall in Boxing Day spending, while Waikato registered a 13.8% fall.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Food and drink spending rose by 4.4% in December compared to the same time last year. Photo \/ Rawpixel, 123RF\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Food and drink spending rose by 4.4% in December compared to the same time last year. Photo \/ Rawpixel, 123RF<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Boxing Day retailers in the Bay of Plenty saw a 14.2% drop in spending last year compared to the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The only regions to see a rise in Boxing Day spending were Gisborne, Nelson and Marlborough. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Despite overtaking Boxing Day as New Zealand\u2019s busiest shopping day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/companies\/retail\/black-friday-spending-down-in-2025-in-blow-to-retail-recovery\/L5GVGMB2URBJDMLSEBL7GV6UHA\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/companies\/retail\/black-friday-spending-down-in-2025-in-blow-to-retail-recovery\/L5GVGMB2URBJDMLSEBL7GV6UHA\/\">Black Friday shopping was down compared to the same day in 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Non-food goods spending on Black Friday alone was down 6.2% compared with last year, and was down 4.6% on last year over the three-day weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Worldline NZ figures showed core retail spending in New Zealand during December reached $4.702 billion, down -0.2% on the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">However, food and drink spending rose 4.4% in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Proffit said the figures showed a tough retailing environment over the last and busy month of the year but revealed some notable shifts in shopping behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere was more spending at food and liquor stores in Worldline\u2019s network across December, which is consistent with generally higher food prices and people prioritising the essentials in their budgets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut for most other non-food stores in our network, their busiest days were still in the two days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[77276,836,3225,7022,2023,138,5972,15248,30271,4999,78,807,11517,3025,111,139,69,1118,10903,644,1243,8262,58333,2563],"class_list":["post-229714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-77276","tag-836","tag-according","tag-black","tag-boxing","tag-business","tag-day","tag-falls","tag-figures","tag-friday","tag-in","tag-kiwis","tag-loses","tag-most","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-popular","tag-retail","tag-shopping","tag-spending","tag-surpassed","tag-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229714","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=229714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}