{"id":631953,"date":"2026-10-16T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631953\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:46:09","slug":"soft-september-for-retailers-stats-nz-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631953\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft September for retailers Stats NZ data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The latest electronic card sales data from Stats NZ shows spending in retail industries fell 0.4 percent, or $33 million, in September compared with the previous month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Hospitality was the biggest driver of the September decline, falling $33m, or 2.3 percent, from the previous month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Spending on apparel fell $6.7m, or 2 percent, while spending on durables was down $6.6m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">However, fuel spending rose $6.4m, or 1.3 percent, reflecting higher global oil prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">For the three months to September, seasonally adjusted spending across retail industries was up slightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Statistics New Zealand said retail spending in the September quarter rose 0.1 percent, or $14m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Food was a major driver of the quarterly increase, rising $109m, or 1.3 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest electronic card sales data from Stats NZ shows spending in retail industries fell 0.4 percent, or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-631953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631953","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=631953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}