09. July 2024 Large events such as the EURO 2024 football tournament obtain sufficient attention so that they affect expenditure patterns, particularly on match days. We use expenditure data from Monitoring Consumption Switzerland (MCS) in the category food & beverage services in Switzerland to quantify the size of this effect. Figure 1: Year-on-Year expenditure growth… Read More Match days of the Swiss national team during the EURO 2024: a mixed blessing for bars and restaurants

20. May 2024 On August 10, 2023 an accident caused the closure of the Gotthard base tunnel, a key connection for travel between the North of Switzerland and the canton Ticino. The closure lasted until December 10, 2023. Thereafter, a reduced schedule of 31 trains per weekend was implemented. Since March 2024 further 7 trains… Read More The closure of the Gotthard base tunnel had only a temporary negative effect on the growth of expenditures for hotels and restaurants in Ticino

13. March 2024 A new dashboard on payment methods and payment channels on the MCS website provides clues about payment methods, payment channels, and their recent trends. The top figure, on the share of the transaction volume by payment method, shows that the share accounted for by debit cards has remained remarkably stable between 55… Read More Payment methods and payment channels of transactions in Switzerland since 2019

13. December 2023 It is well known that payments in Switzerland have striking weekly seasonality patterns within months. Expenditures increase towards the end of the month with a subsequent decrease at the beginning of the month. Data from Monitoring Consumption Switzerland (MCS) reveal that this pattern is most pronounced for payments with TWINT and can… Read More Spending habits unveiled: stronger weekly seasonal patterns of TWINT payments

27. November 2023 Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Data from Monitoring Consumption Switzerland in the merchant category Retail: Other Goods reveals that sales in the Black Friday week increased by an impressive 44% relative to the previous week, reaching the highest weekly turnover for this year. On Black Friday itself,… Read More Black Friday 2023: Retail Spending Surges, Yet Overall Turnover May Be Disappointing

22. May 2023 (in Deutsch / en Francais) Two years of the pandemic have left their footprint in our work life. Flexible working hours, work from home, and cyber conferencing are the post-pandemic buzzwords. But did they also leave their mark on daily consumption patterns? With data derived from Monitoring Consumption Switzerland (MCS), we investigate… Read More Much Ado About Nothing? Daily consumption patterns of 2019 and 2023 in Switzerland

22. Mai 2023 (in English / en Francais) Zwei Jahre Pandemie haben ihre Spuren in unserem Arbeitsleben hinterlassen. Flexible Arbeitszeiten, Arbeit von zu Hause aus und Cyberkonferenzen sind die Schlagworte seit der Pandemie. Aber haben sie auch ihre Spuren im täglichen Konsumverhalten hinterlassen? Mit Daten von Monitoring Consumption Switzerland (MCS) untersuchen wir, ob sich das… Read More Viel Lärm um nichts? Das tägliche Konsummuster von 2019 und 2023 in der Schweiz

22. mai 2023 (in Deutsch / in English) Deux ans de pandémie ont laissé des traces dans notre vie professionnelle. Horaires de travail flexibles, télétravail et cyberconférences sont les mots à la mode de l’après-pandémie. Mais ont-elles également laissé leur empreinte sur les modes de consommation quotidiens ? A l’aide des données du Monitoring Consumption… Read More Beaucoup de bruit pour rien ? Modes de consommation quotidiens en Suisse en 2019 et 2023

03. April 2023 (in Deutsch / en Francais) Expenditure for travel and tourism picked up in 2022 and this trend has continued in the winter season 2023, albeit at a different pace for restaurants and hotels, and with large differences between cities and more rural areas. The card-expenditure data of Monitoring Consumption Switzerland reveals that… Read More Expenditures for restaurants increase more than for hotels, and expenditures on these items in cities catch up

03. April 2023 (in Deutsch / in English) Les dépenses pour les voyages et le tourisme ont repris en 2022 et cette tendance s’est poursuivie durant la saison d’hiver 2023, mais à un rythme différent pour les restaurants et les hôtels, et avec de grandes différences entre les villes et les régions plus rurales. Les… Read More Les dépenses pour les restaurants augmentent plus que pour les hôtels, et les villes rattrapent leur retard pour ces deux catégories