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67 per cent of Brits will spend more this Valentine's day than last!








Posted by Editor on 5th February 2012 at 09:23 PM
67 per cent of Brits will spend more this Valentine's day than last!
New data reveals love is still in the air despite the nation’s economic woes

New data released today by money-saving site ILoveCashback.com indicates Brits will spend more on Valentine’s gifts than they did a year ago!

ILoveCashback.com surveyed 500 members during January to reveal loved-up Brits plan to spoil themselves rotten this year to ease the economic blues!

ILoveCasback is the UK’s only site to combine price comparison, voucher codes and cashback and has been shortlisted in the Consumer MoneyFacts Awards 2012, best cashback site category.

“It was an overwhelming ‘yes!’ when we asked our members if they would spend more this year than last,’ said ILoveCashback Managing Director, Brad Blake. “It’s often the case that people pamper themselves during hard times and it seems Brits are planning to do just that!

“Proving popular as always are chocolates, flowers, and perfumes, but Red Letter Days are increasingly popular with things like pamper spa days, luxury weekend breaks and even hot air ballooning being booked in the run up to Feb 14.

“Cupid is our motif so its a pleasure to help people save cash this Valentine’s Day. Love does, after all, make the world go round!”

ILoveCashback.com offers price comparison for over 9 million products with more than 1,200 voucher codes for over 1,800 UK stores.

Britons now use the web to shop more avidly than any other major country. A recent Ofcom report compared the UK with 17 other countries and found that 79 per cent of British web users have bought something online, compared to just 27 per cent of Italians.

Nearly nine out of ten from the UK have looked at shopping websites, spending an average of 84 minutes on them per month, compared with around 20 minutes for consumers in Poland and Italy.

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