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A NEW SURVEY has revealed that a sneaky 76 per cent of Irish people are doing their Christmas shopping on their bosses time this year.
he survey, which was conducted across 60,000 of the Irish cash back website FatCheese.ie’s members, also showed that 94 per cent of people will shop online for Christmas this year, which is up from 72 per cent who did last year.
The majority of people said that they will spend between €250 and €500 with the next group saying it will be the lower end of the scale from €100 to €250, while 43 per cent of people said they will spend in or around the same amount they spent last year on gifts.
It seems consumers will generally be spending it on games, CDS or DVDs while the next most popular category was electronic goods at 49 per cent followed by books and clothes.
However the consumers show very little patriotism when it comes to online shopping with only 9 per cent of people saying they will buy Irish this Christmas. 70 per cent of people said they will go for wherever the best value is while 21 per cent said this was no concern to them.
Some 83 per cent of people said they found better value online that in stores.
Other results show that over a quarter of online consumers will be buying an online daily deal voucher for someone as a gift this festive season while 71 per cent of people have begun their Christmas shopping earlier this year.
Commenting on the survey, Ahmed Zaman, co-founder of FatCheese.ie said the results are “quite interesting” as Irish consumers are clearly concerned with getting the best deal online, wherever that may be.
“Also the amount of Irish people doing their shopping online is growing which is good to see,” he said. “People seem to be keeping their level of spending the same as in 2011 online and many looking to spread out the spending longer by starting earlier which will obviously help them when trying to budget their spend.”
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Give me sunshine any day no matter how cold it is. It’s possible to miss lots of things about Ireland except the weather.
@offside again: So true… the difference it makes to your mood. Personally, I prefer to be too cold than too hot but I understand why others hate it. As my used to say ‘it’s fresh Donna’. Not sure but I think the low temperature gets rid of some germs too.
Was just thinking I hadn’t seen any sun in over a week. Glad it’s not only me that noticed
I go to work in the dark and go home when its dark,so its nothing new for me in winter,,,
@Luke Littler: I’m on to you luke LITTER. You spend your days on here fishing for likes.
Poor Dublin. God love them
@Ed H: From all of us, thank you
@Ed H: We know we live rent free in all the rest of the countries heads…..people in rural Ireland can’t finish a sentence without mentioning Dublin.
@John Paul: which countries are those Ed?
@Fionn Bohane: John Paul probably won’t understand that.
@Fionn Bohane: counties…..spell check.
@Ed H: Better than living in the “Shticks”, where it’s a 30 minute journey to the nearest town to do the shopping from the one store that has a monopoly and charges Dublin prices, seen it in many a rural area
@Ed H: hope it doesn’t affect all the cash we send your way
@Ed H: Your power been reconnected yet? Lol.
Hate to live in Dublin …. Jaysus the hours of wasted life in traffic alone heartbreak
@D: I have no problem putting up with traffic to have everything on my doorstep….pro’s and con’s to both but I’d take urban vs rural any day.
@J B: You can always stay out of it!….typical culchie up here working but wouldn’t have a good word to say about it or its people.
@J B: Good,pity you wouldn’t take the rest of them with you.typical culchie.
@D: I make it to the office in 20 minutes, can also work from home, lunchtime has a whole host of options if I fancied going out for it, the rhetoric of gridlock is in your head
@John Paul: your type are the worst thing about Dublin. West Brits with a chip on their shoulder.
@D: traffic doesn’t affect the woke dublin elites like myself who cycle to work it’s great
That’s most weeks in Leitrim but it’s news when it happens in Dublin.
@Tony: plus the west.
@brendan C5: The weather in Mayo is class.
Nothing a good carbon tax won’t fix, I’m sure.
Caller ” It’s a diiiiis..’grace Joe! They should do something about it.
Joe : “They?!?”
Caller “The government Joe!”
Why am I still living on this fkn island
@Le Merchelant: As someone who has worked mostly outside of Ireland for the past 15 years I ask myself the same EVERY SINGLE DAY – Why…….????
Got that right! Month of Mordor…. gloomy kip.
Been living under cloud in Dublin for last two weeks but we have a weekend break in Galway this weekend just as the sun moves to Dublin, it’s me, isn’t it, it’s me, I know it’s me.
Typical.
Kip will always be kip
High flying aircraft busy spreading chemicals blocking out the sun US government now banned this activity Chemtrails over whole country ..people need to know about this
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