Luis Bencosme, board president at CARDNet, says that Dominicans spent RD$5.3 billion in Black Friday-related credit card purchases this year. The total is 22.64% more than the RD$4.3 billion spent in 2018. He estimated that including purchases in cash, the spending for the November shopping event reached RD$6 billion in the Dominican Republic in 2019.
Read more in Spanish:
El Dinero
5 December 2019