...and the Fat Cats are getting, er, fatter. Despite figures being down and the cut price sales starting already, millions will still be spent. In these consumerist times here are a few Christmas spending facts:
- According to the debit card company, Switch, each person in the UK will spend an average of £862, up 20% on 2001 (£710)
- Christmas tree sales will total an estimated £245 million which is nearly 7million Christmas tree.
- This year on December 1st, three of London's main streets were closed to traffic and Christmas shopppers spent more than £100 million.
- The main targets for shoplifters are cosmetic, womenswear, perfume and alcohol. They will steal approximately £431 million worth of goods over the Christmas period. £1 million
- On the Friday before Christmas last year, shopper withdrew £q million a minute from the nations cash machines.
- Online sales last year reached £7.66 billion in online sales on the run up to Christmas.
- 10% of men spend over £1000 on gifts but only 2% of women do.
- On average, parents spend £200 per child
- Last week, three studies assessing the Government's poverty strategy concluded half a million children have been lifted out of poverty, but 3.9m remain there.
- In 2006, a family of four on benefits could, on average, only manage to spend on average of £121 over the whole of Christmas.
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