{"id":11477,"date":"2017-02-21T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=11477"},"modified":"2017-02-21T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T22:00:03","slug":"consumers-will-spend-18-2-billion-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/consumers-will-spend-18-2-billion-on-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers Will Spend $18.2 Billion on Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; color: #333333; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">People are going to be spending a lot of money on Valentine&#8217;s Day. It is estimated that people will spend a staggering 18.2 million on it. That number is actually lower than last year, as hard as that is to believe. Tickets to a concert, or some other experiential event are really popular this year. Even though the numbers are down many people still will celebrate this holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">U.S. consumers are expected to spend an average $136.57, down from last year\u2019s record-high $146.84. Total spending is expected to reach $18.2 billion, down from $19.7 billion last year, which was also a record.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">Also popular this year are \u201cgifts of experience\u201d such as tickets to a concert or sporting event, a gym membership or an outdoor adventure. While 40 percent of consumers want an experience gift, only 24 percent plan to give one.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">Consumers plan to shop at department stores (35 percent), discount stores (32 percent), online (27 percent), specialty stores (18 percent), florists (18 percent), and local small businesses (15 percent).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;U.S. consumers are expected to spend an average $136.57, down from last year\u2019s record-high $146.84. Total spending is expected to reach $18.2 billion, down from $19.7 billion last year, which was also a record.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/news\/consumers-will-spend-182-billion-valentine-s-day\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/news\/consumers-will-spend-182-billion-valentine-s-day<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are going to be spending a lot of money on Valentine&#8217;s Day. It is estimated that people will spend a staggering 18.2 million on it. That number is actually lower than last year, as hard as that is to believe. Tickets to a concert, or some other experiential event are really popular this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}