Christmas Shopping Survey Results 2022

 We recently conducted a survey of 6,501 people in regards to their Christmas Shopping plans!

Recently we ran survey asking people their plans for their Christmas shopping, including when they will start and finish their shopping, what percent of their shopping they will do online, how much they intended to spend on certain people and what they would like or not like to receive.

To summarise the key findings:

People will do on average 61% of their Christmas shopping online this year. Also 4% of survey respondents said they will be doing 100% of their shopping online this year. It seems people are still choosing to do most of their shopping online even though they are now able to go into stores.

Spending Trends

The average spend in total for Christmas gifts has been the highest it has ever been since 2015, when the survey was first started. In 2015 the average spend overall was €749, now the average spend is €950! There has been a constant increase in the total spend year on year and this average is up from €876 in 2021.

The question of who people will be buying gifts for has had some shifts from 2021. In 2021 34% of people were buying gifts for colleagues whereas in 2022 only 24% will be buying gifts for their colleagues, yet the average spend has increased to €119, up from €68 in 2021. 

According to our survey, there have been an increase in spending on colleagues is the only increase with the average spend going up from €68 in 2021 to €119 in 2022. Overall there has been a huge decrease in the amount of spending the survey respondents plan on doing per gift recipient, for example the average spend on respondent’s children is  €263 in 2022, down from €365 in 2021. The average spend on partners is down 47% in 2022. Spend on parents has also decreased from €291 to €121 this year.

Shopping Habits

Lastly the most popular gift for the 5th year in a row that people would like to receive is a Voucher. Also 33% of people have already begun their Christmas shopping but 31% of people do not plan to finish their Christmas shopping until the third week in December.

Check out when people plan on starting their Christmas shopping? Are you one of the organised people who have already started?

Here is when people plan on finishing up their Christmas Shopping? Will you be finished early or are you one of the people not finishing until Christmas Eve?

Here are the Top 10 Christmas Gifts that people said they want to receive this Christmas. 

Here are the Top 10 Worst Christmas Gifts that people said they have received.