Consumer spending up over Christmas period
Barclaycard Payment Acceptance, which processes credit and debit card transactions for 88,000 UK retailers, said consumers spent 4.09bn on their plastic between December 19 and December 31, up from 3.99bn in the same period of 2008.
The busiest day was December 23, when people spent 497m on last-minute Christmas shopping.
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Hide AdPost-Christmas spending totalled 1.68b as people hit the sales, up from 1.64bn in 2008.
December 29 was the busiest day post-Christmas, with transactions worth 376m processed.
More than 700,000 transactions worth 24m were processed on December 25.