This year, people spent more than last year and the year before. Paymark processes three-quarters of all electronic sales. These are sales using a credit card or cash card. Paymark said sales were up by 13.4 per cent – or $14.2 million – compared with Boxing Day last year. People spent $120m, compared with $106m on the same day last year. They bought more than two million items. The population of NZ is only 4.4 million.

　　The most popular items were electronic goods, jewellery and clothing.

　　Vocabulary

　　left-over – extra food, food not eaten on Christmas day

　　cash card – In NZ this is called EFTPOS – Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale; point of sale is the place you buy something e.g. at the shop; the money (funds) is taken (transfer) directly out of your bank account. It is not a credit card

　　items – different things