{"id":23728,"date":"2023-07-28T12:46:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=23728"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:46:32","slug":"saudi-consumers-saudi-central-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/07\/28\/saudi-consumers-saudi-central-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Saudi consumers spent $2.66 billion in POS transactions last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Saudi consumers spent up to SR10,120,926,000 during the week of July 16-22 through 159,618,000 POS transactions, recording an increase compared to SR10,919,162,000 the week before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sama.gov.sa\/en-US\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saudi Central Bank\u2019s<\/a> weekly bulletin for points of sale, the number of transactions in clothing and footwear amounted to 4,310,000 with a value of SR561,133,000, while the number of transactions in electronic and electric devices reached 940,000 with a value of SR208,532,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On the other hand, the number of transactions in furniture amounted to 900,000, with a value of SR243,361,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the jewellery sector, the transaction number touched 190,000 with a value of SR176,609,000, and the number of transactions in miscellaneous goods and services reached 17,584,000, with a value of SR1,121,659,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Among the cities of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/07\/nielseniq-saudi-consumers-to-spend-more-on-grocery-and-household-items\/\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>, Riyadh came with the highest number of weekly POS transactions at 46,618,000 with a value of SR3,237,785,000, while Abha recorded the lowest number with 3,633,000 transactions standing at SR206,745,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The number of POS transactions in Makkah reached 6,384,000 with a value of SR382,247,000, while the number of POS transactions in Madinah reached 6,586,000 with a value of SR383,270,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The number of POS transactions in Tabuk reached 3,159,000 with a value of SR167,772,000, and in Hail, it was 2,891,000 transactions with a value of SR163,745,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The number of POS transactions in Buraidah amounted to 3,699,000 with a value of SR241,241,000, and in Al Khobar to 3,356,00, with a value of SR278,716,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0POS transactions in Dammam during the period reached 6,169,000 with a value of SR481,104,000, and in Jeddah, it hit 19,001,000 with a value of SR1,477,016,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0The number of POS transactions in other cities was 58,124,000 with a value of SR3,101,285,000, the report indicated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi consumers spent up to SR10,120,926,000 during the week of July 16-22, according to the Saudi Central Bank&#8217;s bulletin <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":17544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2683,4928],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23729,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions\/23729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}