During the first weekend quarantine of November, sales volumes fell by 45% compared to the previous weekend

During the first weekend quarantine of November, sales volumes fell by 45% compared to the previous weekend, Ukrainian Processing Center tells Interfax-Ukraine about use of 7.8 million cards of its 19 client banks. During the weekend of Nov. 14-15, the number of payments through point of sale terminals dropped by 27%, to almost 3 million, and the turnover on these operations fell by 45%. Alexey Puznyak, of Raiffeisen Bank Aval, tells Interfax-Ukraine that on Saturday Nov. 14, the number of transactions with its bank cards through terminals was down 31%. On Sunday Nov. 15, it was down 47%. He said: “If in the segment of supermarkets there was practically no fall, then, for example, in the segment of clothing trade there was a decrease by more than 90%.”