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However, the financial technology firm said charities, pubs, taxi operators and religious groups all benefited from increased business, based on its analysis of over 350,000 credit and debit card, contactless and cash payment transactions that it processed last weekend.
It said that religious organisations benefited the most from the wedding, with transactions up by 308 per cent compared to an average weekend.
The volume of payments made to charities was up 167.4 per cent.
SumUp said its data showed that the people of Britain celebrated the union of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as the volume of payments at pubs and bars was 11.9 per cent higher than usual, while taxi firms experienced an increase of 15.2 per cent in business.
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However, the wedding appears to have kept people away from the high street and hotels.
According to SumUp’s data, with transaction volumes at general retailers down 4.4 per cent.
Clothes shops saw a 7.3 per cent decline in the number of payments compared with what they normally receive over the course of a weekend.
Fast food outlets saw the biggest decline in business, with payments down 12.5 per cent, followed by cafés and restaurants, where transactions fell 9.1 per cent.