{"id":80307,"date":"2021-12-28T00:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T05:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=80307"},"modified":"2021-12-27T22:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T03:45:38","slug":"holiday-sales-jumped-8-5-mastercard-says-as-shoppers-shrug-off-higher-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2021\/holiday-sales-jumped-8-5-mastercard-says-as-shoppers-shrug-off-higher-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"Holiday sales jumped 8.5%, Mastercard says, as shoppers shrug off higher prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) As shoppers kick off a wave of returns and exchanges or rush in to spend gift cards, retailers appear to have reason to celebrate: Holiday spending rose 8.5% compared with a year ago, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse. The gain was slightly less than the 8.8% increase that Mastercard had predicted, but it was the biggest annual increase 17 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/27\/holiday-sales-jumped-8point5percent-as-shoppers-shrugged-off-higher-prices.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) As shoppers kick off a wave of returns and exchanges or rush in to spend gift cards, retailers appear to have reason to celebrate: Holiday spending rose 8.5% compared with a year ago, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse. The gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80308,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80307\/revisions\/80308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}