Boxing day spending in Southland risesKavinda Herath Eftpos machine. Southlanders dug out their eftpos cards on Boxing Day, spending $3.1m in the region's stores through the Paymark network. The dollar amount is $100,000 less than was spent in Southland compared to last Boxing Day. Year on year growth for Boxing Day spending was remarkable, he said. He said he was not surprised that spending in the days before Christmas trumped Boxing Day sales.

Source: Stuff December 27, 2017 01:30 UTC