Boxing Day: How bargain seekers across the country spent the day

On the second day of Christmas retailers gave to us sales but here in Nottingham the consensus was that the discounts this year have been pretty disappointing I do it every year um I’m always the first in time trying to get the bargains but yeah today’s just not really gone

That well half the stuff I bought isn’t even on sale so it just feels like a normal day of shopping many had held their spending until these sales hoping for a good deal as the cost of living continued to cause pain Shoppers are expected to spend 4.7 billion during these post Christmas

Sales the average person will Fork out over 250 a big increase on 2020 when Boxing Day bargain Seekers spent about £60 for smaller independent retailers it can be hard to compete when it comes to discounts one clothes shop told me they simply can’t afford to lower any

Prices and many of the big brands closed their stores today leaving customers to go online next and John Lewis and M&S are all closed and I remember when I would go when I was younger with my parents they would always be open and they would be the first shops who would

Go to were you surprised to see the M&S is short today yes I was but in a way it’s quite nice for the staff to have another day off on boxing day the car park of this Shopping Center in Bristol was unseasonably quiet today as people chose to browse from home

But selfridges on Oxford Street was popular at opening time and at Brent Cross in London plenty came to try and bag a bargain I think on boxing day it’s whatever is yellow people will buy I think you could put a toilet roll with a sales sticker on it and people will buy

It at this point and it’s just the mindset when you walk into the shop on a boxing day that anything is half price let’s buy it retailers are facing lower profits than before the pandemic and it seems that’s showing in the size of their price drops but as many customers

Continue to tighten their purse strings they say the brands are going to have to do better to tempt them to spend Becky cotell Sky News noting

High street retailers are hoping the Boxing Day sales will help deliver a better end to the year and although many flocked to flagship stores – initial reports suggested shops were quieter than expected.

Sky’s Becky Cotterill reports.

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16 comments

  2. Once , as , dad and i , were buying tissiue for curtains in London UK , for Our flat at Belgrade Jossifa Marinkovića street , we payed over 3000 GBP , around 1995 the year , a BLue Sky colloure motive , the two sellers were surprised that we brought it 😂😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  3. Bought it . The sellers in London UK were surprised we were buying it , it was , a genuinelly monarchyal motive , indeed , Because we Came From a poor East , we wanted something genuinelly brittish

  4. Later , as we gave Our flat to buy a House , at Kačanička 004 , the curtains were Lost , somewhere , stollen surelly , on Our poor 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸 , Never Minde , remember Brittain , remember 🙂👋👏🇷🇺🇷🇸

  5. One notorious architeckt , Cvijić , Cvija , saw Our curtains , at Jossifa Marinkovića street , he was very pleased , recognizing their genuine vallue 🙂👋👏

  6. Once , around 1992 , dad bought a jacket for rain in Harrods , i think , Paul Shark , on sale , around 140 GBP i think …. I wore it untill few years ago ….

  7. In late August 2015 i was on board of Cruise Costa Mediteranea and we stopped in Trieste , and i bought a wight shirt Paul Shark mum brought Here From Serbia , 20 euros i payed , with the flag of Scotts 😊👋👏 Here with me in Moscow , Russia 🙂👋👏

  14. Wow was it the same as last boxing day and the last 60 before that by any chance .Guess what on Christmas day lots of people had turkey for dinner

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