{"id":122546,"date":"2021-10-07T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=122546"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T09:32:09","slug":"uk-card-spending-recovers-to-100-of-pre-pandemic-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/uk-card-spending-recovers-to-100-of-pre-pandemic-level\/","title":{"rendered":"UK card spending recovers to 100% of pre-pandemic level"},"content":{"rendered":"<figcaption>FILE PHOTO: An employee is seen working behind a protective screen and a sign reading &#8220;Card payment only&#8221; in a Pret a Manger store that has reopened for delivery and takeaway in Wimbledon, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 1, 2020. REUTERS\/Hannah McKay<\/figcaption><p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Spending on payment cards in Britain last week rose to 100% of its pre-pandemic level of February 2020, up from 95% a week earlier, data showed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Separate figures from the Office for National Statistics showed output-per-hour worked, a measure of productivity in the economy, inched up by 0.1% in the second quarter, leaving it 1.7% above its average level in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Economists say productivity data are likely to be distorted by the effects of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/briain-economy-ons\/uk-card-spending-recovers-to-100-of-pre-pandemic-level-idUSL9N2PI01Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: An employee is seen working behind a protective screen and a sign reading &#8220;Card payment only&#8221; in a Pret a Manger store that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UK card spending recovers to 100% of pre-pandemic level - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/uk-card-spending-recovers-to-100-of-pre-pandemic-level\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK card spending recovers to 100% of pre-pandemic level - Fin2me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FILE PHOTO: An employee is seen working behind a protective screen and a sign reading &#8220;Card payment only&#8221; 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