London: Are people spending less this Christmas?

We ask Londoners if the cost-of-living crisis has impacted plans for the holiday season.

Transcript

00:00I think it's I think people are getting smarter with their purchasing and getting

00:07a bit more specific to the person because if you do that then you're less

00:12likely to overspend in the wrong direction and more likely to spend for

00:16exactly what you're trying to achieve for the other person so I think that I

00:21think people are getting getting just a little bit smarter with their purchasing

00:24no it doesn't surprise me I hear that Vinted is quite a popular channel that

00:28people are purchasing through although I don't do it myself but yeah I think I

00:33think it's tougher I think it's tougher all around when you get across the living

00:36crisis the first things that get cut are luxuries and and Christmas is a bit of a

00:41luxury I mean it's the problem for a lot of people is that it's an unavoidable

00:46luxury go if you don't spend on Christmas that's where your kids or your family

00:50will notice the most so in particular in to do with Christmas I think it's one of

00:57the things that people find hard to cut out