{"id":138746,"date":"2020-04-03T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/03\/playstation-and-moonpigs-uk-sales-soar-amid-virus-crisis\/"},"modified":"2020-04-03T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:37:17","slug":"playstation-and-moonpigs-uk-sales-soar-amid-virus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=138746","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation and Moonpig&#039;s UK sales soar amid virus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from online bank Revolut shows convenience stores boom and decline in cash useCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpending on PlayStation more than doubled in March, while local convenience stores such as Nisa and Costcutter recorded a surge in sales, according to the online bank Revolut. But JD Wetherspoon, the pubs chain, was among the biggest losers in the UK.Revolut\u2019s customers are likely to be younger and slightly more urban than account holders at the traditional big banks. But the data \u2013 taken from spending by the digital lender\u2019s 3 million customers from 1-31 March \u2013 gives a strong indication of the consumption patterns that have emerged since the pandemic gripped Britain. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/apr\/03\/playstation-moonpig-uk-sales-soar-virus-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation and Moonpig&#039;s UK sales soar amid virus crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from online bank Revolut shows convenience stores boom and decline in cash useCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpending on PlayStation more than doubled in March, while local convenience stores such as Nisa and Costcutter recorded a surge in sales, according to the online bank Revolut. But JD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}