Emmet Oliver
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420 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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Of course, we have Cyber Monday a few days after that.
And here in studio with me is Ruth McNamee, who is the Director of PwC Retail and Consumer Practice, to tell us more about what's going on out there.
Ruth, good morning to you.
It's great to have you along.
So you've looked at what type of spending, where they're going to do it.
You know, what's the pattern versus previous years?
And it seems the overall shape of this is we still love Black Friday.
We still love Cyber Monday.
We love all these big package retail events, but just the spending starting to slightly taper off in some areas.
So do you get a sense that people will have a look, they'll go online, they'll go into the physical store, but they may just not spend anything.
They'll have a peek, but depending on what's there and available.
Now, obviously, when you make a purchase, there's all sorts of trade-offs going on.
And one is the cost versus other concerns, sometimes sustainability and so on.
It seems to be a subtle message in the survey results is that people are still looking at sustainability, but not quite as much.
They may be just looking at price more so.
Now, it's a difficult thing to track in your survey, of course, but still the figures are very interesting.
On average, Irish consumers plan to spend at least 283 euros over the sales weekend compared to 329 last year.
That's 14% drop.
I suppose what's difficult to know is, is it just they're staying away from Black Friday and spending it at other times of the Christmas shopping season?
So it's difficult for you guys to track the exact trends.
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