Barclaycard buoyed by August bank holiday spending surge
by Larry Elliott Economics editor from on (#5P19P)
Card payment firm reports more transactions at weekend than on any day since Christmas Eve 2019
A surge in spending on leisure, entertainment and eating out in the UK made the August bank holiday the busiest for consumer activity since the pre-pandemic Christmas of 2019, Barclaycard has said.
Figures from the card payment company show individuals were undeterred by weather that felt like autumn and rising Covid-19 infections, with transactions 14.4% up on the same long weekend in 2020 and 9.4% higher than in 2019.
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