Shopping on Christmas day!

January 14th, 2009

I read an article on The BBC website the other day that stated that £102million was spent on Christmas day from people shopping online.

Now I, just as much as anyone else, like to pick up a bargain in the sales but the thought of shopping on Christmas day just seems wrong to me, so do shops being open on Boxing day. 2008 saw the January sales starting early so weren’t people able to pick up enough bargains before Christmas to actually put their feet up on Christmas day. Doesn’t anyone have anything better to do on Christmas and Boxing day then to do even more shopping. Personally I would rather be spending time with my family, watching some traditional Christmas rubbish on the TV or going for a nice walk to work off those extra pounds.

The three big supermarkets Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s opened an additional 200 stores in 2008 compared to the number of stores opened in 2007 - why? Surely we can go a couple of days without needing to do a food shop. We usually have enough food left over from Christmas day to last a week.

The end of 2008 was a hard year for retail and so I am sure that the additional Christmas day sales were very welcome. There were an endless supply of shop sales running too so I am sure that there are some very happy people out there who managed to snap up some bargains. I just hope that things will calm down by Christmas 2009 and maybe we can all enjoy a relaxing, shop free Christmas day.

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