Over a £1bn spent on Valentine’s day
February 14, 2008 by admin
Filed under News, News-Credit-Cards
Over a £1 billion is expected to be spent on Valentine’s day, despite over half of consumers saying the day has become ‘over-commercialised’, according to new research.
Findings from research by Alliance & Leicester covering customer activity on the Valentine weekend last year indicate that debit card spending on flowers, restaurants and jewellery rose by 60 per cent compared with the previous week.
Last year men spent more than 36 per cent the normal amount in florists on Valentine’s day
Emma Walkley, senior current account manager at Alliance & Leicester, said: “Although people say Valentine’s day has been spoilt by over-commercialisation, spending patterns show that we still make an effort to celebrate it in some way.”
She added that consumer figures from last year reveal a ’spending rush’ on the day and those preceding February 14th in 2007, a trend expected to be repeated again this year.
Meanwhile, research from Halifax has shown that the average male spender is expected to pay £42 on flowers and £82 on eating out during February.


