Did you brave the sales?

[mollykins]

Have any of you lot braved the sales yesterday and today?

I swapped a top that my dad had got me that didn't fit for something else that i'd had my eye on for a while, and fortunately, they had one in my size left. And got a top from newlook which had been reduced from £8 to £2!

[ummmm]

No...

I'd rather pay full price and not shop with bargain hunters. Plus, I'm convinced they bring in stuff especially for 'THE SALES'

[China Doll]

I went out to. My hip/leg went so walking became painful/uncomfortable and now I'm back home. I guess it's serendipity, I wasn't exactly excited about going shopping.

[dotty.]

ummmm stores have been doing that for 20 years or more lol

[mollykins]

Somethings they probably do, but these two tops i'd seen before and had my eye especially on one of them and the other I weren't to bothered about but it goes with some jewelry I got for christmas.

[dotty.]

they would have been end of season/range molly. prime stock is only ever discounted to 10-20%

[ummmm]

And that's why I don't shop in the sales...

Well, I avoid shopping anyway...it's a needs must basis...and I never 'need' enough to go shopping in the sales.

[dotty.]

RRP factors in a percentage reduction from as early as 4 weeks after the range arrives in store, the mark downs are based on how many weeks of stock the company is holding in their product file,

[Barmaid]

You must be joking. I don't shop unless I absolutely have to and sale shopping just sends me cold. Makes me feel murderous.

If I wasn't feeling so crap, I'd be out shooting today.

[sammmo]

my mrs and daughter got to our local NEXT store at 6am yesterday and still cued up for a hour before they got in. Absolute madness if you ask me..Iwas tucked up in bed

[dotty.]

next are the biggest culprit for ordering in stock or the sales, it's so obvious it is ridiculous, they sell the lines in small numbers in one store before the legal deadline and then the bulk of the stock holding is held back to launch in the sale.

[mollykins]

I went to next today and saw this lowely blue jacket but it was the only one left and too small . . .

[dotty.]

and don't get ne strated on the furniture industry, back in the late 1970s I worked in the House of Fraser selling top brand furniture and the manufacturers produced suits that were supposedly discounted, but they were the same suites only made with cheaper fabrics. The £1000 suite was on show all year round but the cheaper 'sale' version was only launced on first day of sale. That's how the stores work,

[cazzz1975]

I dodged the sales and got the usuals bread/milk normal food

[sara3]

my daughter wanted to go shopping yesterday and we went to Lakeside.

IT WAS HELL!

[boxtops]

We went to M&S, the queues there were enough!

[B00]

My daughter went to the Next one yesterday. Said there were queues to get in, and only letting two or three people in at a time.

Sounds like hell to me, but apparently she got some baby things cheap.

[jno]

a lot fewer people out today than yesterday, I'm told. But Westfield reports only 500 out of 4500 parking spaces are available.

However, public transport cancellations and stomach upsets are keeping me indoors till tomorrow at least. Perhaps my body is telling me I am too old to shop. (Perhaps China's is too.)

[spud-u-like]

Nope, but will nip down to a few places tommorrow have a sneaky peaky.

What's been said about Next is absolutely spot on. They do clear the shelves of all the current items and get in stock from last year and more years before that, and stuff they cant shift normally, just for the sales.

[mollykins]

In the next near me about 1/3 of the shop was stuff that wasn't reduced . . .