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The buy now, pay later holiday debt hangover has arrived, as consumers wonder how they'll pay bills
AFRMAffirm(AFRM) CNBC·2024-01-21 20:17

When she started shopping for the holidays late last year, Kiki Andersen was struggling to buy her loved ones gifts. So she turned to a novel solution to get through the season: Buy now, pay later. The 31-year-old comedian from Los Angeles used Klarna and PayPal to split a variety of purchases into four interest-free payments spread out over a series of weeks. At the time, her upfront cost was about a quarter of the overall purchase price. But now that January has arrived and the other installments are star ...