The number of payments made using debit cards has been available in the week before Christmas, with nearly a 15-percent increase compared to a normal week, a report betaalvereniging will Holland on Monday. On Saturday the 21st of december, it was almost a twenty-year paid with a credit card, in the afternoon, close to a thousand transactions per second have been achieved.
Retailers have taken this year, in addition, are in luck: the week before Christmas, it was all the same, the profit obtained, in the same week that by 2018, while this year there will be an extra day of the holidays before. “A bonusdag at the box office,” according to the association.
Especially the jewelry and the book was in the purse, and pulled out. And the christmas markets will have more than half of all transactions are taken care of. To further increase the purchases of plants and animals (with 42 percent of the time. That is, for a large part, due to christmas trees, poinsettias, and other decorations.
Online, it was even more, though. Credit card companies and paypal and saw, between Monday 16 and Sunday 22 december-20 per cent more transactions than in the same period of the previous year. The aggregate cash settlement amount came out to around 1.65 billion euros.
