Shelling out on credit and debit cards has carried on to go up in August and it is today above the day average during August of last 12 months, new figures from the Central Bank show.
Nevertheless, ATM withdrawals continue to be substantially down on last year.
It has dragged down the general day card spend, which has ATM withdrawals, to three % below what it was in August 2019.
But compared to its great point for mid April, card shelling out is up sixty three %.
The Central Bank has today printed stats which detail flash card transaction details for July and some initial figures for this month – up to August 24.
The Central Bank said that debit and bank card spending has remained’ relatively stable’ in August with the daily devote up nine % on the identical month previous 12 months.
However, ATM withdrawals are down 31 % compared to last year so the general invest remains lower compared to August 2019.
The 3rd stage of the lifting of constraints in July was certainly apparent in last month’s card payments.
List paying remained fairly stationary compared to the earlier month with clothing set up 9 % but food down three %.
However, the spend on food stays 36 % increased an annual basis.
Shelling out on electric items and hardware also declined a little in July by 2 % but each of those sectors remained more than thirty % bigger than in July previous year.
There was, however, a jump of 160 % in paying on accommodation and a twenty four % increase on travel.
But paying in the two sectors is always way below what it had been in July last year, with accommodation down 51 % and transportation slouching 66 % an annual basis.
Paying of joints was up fifty six % in July but is still 20 % below last 12 months.
The switch to shelling out on services by customers may have contributed to the invest on ecommerce remaining very fixed very last month at €2.2 billion, that is actually up one % on June.
But e-commerce remains up sixteen % compared to last season as well as now accounts for 41 % of complete flash memory card spending, the Central Bank said.
