Expenditure 30% reduction in the first half of April Credit usage amount survey New Corona May 1 at 10:15
A private survey found that spending on credit card spending in the first half of last month was down about 30% compared to before the spread of the new coronavirus.
This is a data analysis company Nowcast analyzes spending by removing the influence of the season based on the amount of money used by JCB's credit card. For the period from the 1st to the 15th of last month, the new coronavirus Compared with the second half of January before the infection spread.
As a result, it decreased by 29.1% as a whole.
“Leisure consumption” decreased
Breakdown:
▽ "Travel" is minus 91.5%,
▽ "Dining out" is minus 61.1%,
▽ "Entertainment" such as movies is minus 51.2%,
▽ "Transportation" is minus 40.4%, etc., so-called "leisure consumption" I am very depressed.
“Nest nest consumption” increased
On the other hand, the so-called "nest nest consumption" is increasing.
▽ "Liquor store" increased by 19.9%,
▽ "Supermarket" increased by 15.4%,
▽ "Content distribution" such as videos and music
increased by 12.8%, and ▽ "Internet shopping" increased by 11.9%.
Expert "Shocking Reduction"
As a technical adviser to the company that conducted the survey, Tsutomu Watanabe, a professor at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, said, "The decrease of 30% overall is a shocking decrease, and there is consumption behavior that wants to avoid face-to-face contact. The number of users of online shopping and distribution of contents is increasing rapidly, and convenient services that have become part of our daily lives will take root even after self-restraint. "