{"id":230869,"date":"2026-01-13T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:54:07","slug":"boxing-day-retail-spending-falls-in-static-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230869\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day retail spending falls in static December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail spending on Boxing Day 2025 fell by 12.4 per cent from the year prior, as overall activity across December declined.<\/p>\n<p>Payment processor Worldline NZ has revealed its spending figures through December 2025, which show that Kiwis spent $4.7 billion across the month, a 0.2 per cent decrease on 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But the company\u2019s chief sales officer, Bruce Proffit, said the figures show a shift in shoppers\u2019 behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>\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 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe online spending processed through Worldline was up 18.9 per cent in December. This pattern is likely to be repeated among other online payments systems, judging by earlier reports and international patterns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With $51.2 million spent on Boxing Day across all non-food stores, Proffit said it fell behind <a href=\"https:\/\/insideretail.co.nz\/2025\/12\/03\/black-friday-sales-fall-short-of-last-years-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fell behind Black Friday<\/a>, which saw $55.6 million spent.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout all of 2025, Worldline NZ\u2019s payments reached $45.1B in expenditure, which is up 0.6 per cent on 2024. Worldline, however, said this was down to a 0.8 per cent increase in average transaction value.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe annual figures point to a tough retail sector last year, with extra spending appearing to be largely the result of higher prices,\u201d Proffit added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail spending on Boxing Day 2025 fell by 12.4 per cent from the year prior, as overall activity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,13287,137367],"class_list":["post-230869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-retail-sales","tag-worldline-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230869","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=230869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}