{"id":19640,"date":"2015-02-13T03:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=19640"},"modified":"2015-02-13T03:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:21:23","slug":"valentine-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/valentine-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine Shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/seeval.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>91% of American adults plan to treat their significant others\/spouses to something special for Valentine&#8217;s Day. \u00a0California-based\u00a0Sees Candy knows the pulse of consumers this Valentine&#8217;s Day. The company with over 200 stores extended its hours and is staying open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Feb. 12, 13 and 14, 2015. According to National Retail Federation, the top gift\u00a0shoppers plan to buy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dining\/candy-trends.html\">candy<\/a> for the sweet holiday, spending a total of $1.7 billion on confections.\u00a0More than\u00a050% are getting sweets for a loved one. Fairfield, California-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/fairfield.html\">Jelly Belly<\/a> offers products such as\u00a0heart shaped boxes of jelly beans and there&#8217;s a Chocolate &amp; Wine Experience that&#8217;s extremely popular with adults. While tours are free, this enhanced, fee-based experience puts you at the front of the line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gifts for Valentines Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>21.1% plan to buy jewelry for a total of $4.8 billion<\/li>\n<li>37.8 percent will buy flowers, spending a total of $2.1 billion<\/li>\n<li>35.1% will spend on plans for a special night out, including movies and restaurants, totaling $3.6 billion<\/li>\n<li>Other gifts include clothing ($2 billion) and \u00a0gift cards ($1.5 billion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>91% of American adults plan to treat their significant others\/spouses to something special for Valentine&#8217;s Day. \u00a0California-based\u00a0Sees Candy knows the pulse of consumers this Valentine&#8217;s Day. The company with over 200 stores extended its hours and is staying open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Feb. 12, 13 and 14, 2015. According to National Retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}