Seriously !!
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Someone should tell them that online stores have boxing day sales too.
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I went into town today (Nottingham) looking for some bargains and found absolutely bugger all. Forbidden Planet had been all but cleaned out of decent board games, Game and Gamestation had nothing worth considering going on.
I did get Guitar Hero: Metallica plus guitar for £30 from HMV which was great, but I also noticed they'd broken street date and were selling District 9 on Blu Ray, when I've just gone and ordered it from Play! SO RAGING!
I did get Guitar Hero: Metallica plus guitar for £30 from HMV which was great, but I also noticed they'd broken street date and were selling District 9 on Blu Ray, when I've just gone and ordered it from Play! SO RAGING!
I notices that...was a little bit
town was dead wasnt it. got a jack wills shirt, down from £80 to £44.
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It's because customers are horrible creatures
As soon as people can go out and spend money and accumulate things they will.
I'll deal with them all tomorrow when I return to the brain dead job I have.
As soon as people can go out and spend money and accumulate things they will.
I'll deal with them all tomorrow when I return to the brain dead job I have.
I'll be honest, it's more of a bit of fun by the looks of it.Boxing day sales morons..
Just watch the video.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8430661.stm
I find it sickening to be quite honest.
Consumerist greed
The actual sickening thing is people fighting over turkeys and other foodstuff, FIGHTING!
It shows how some people tend to skim read things but don't understand them.
There have been countless news articles about how last years sales were so good because of excess stock worrying the retailers as we hit the "recession".
Yet this year retailers have been much more frugal and have only bought in as much as the tightened forecasts show they will need, thus the price wars of last year will not happen again.
Instead we see items marked up the day before, and then reduced back to normal on the big day.
There have been countless news articles about how last years sales were so good because of excess stock worrying the retailers as we hit the "recession".
Yet this year retailers have been much more frugal and have only bought in as much as the tightened forecasts show they will need, thus the price wars of last year will not happen again.
Instead we see items marked up the day before, and then reduced back to normal on the big day.
Christ it's a sale...what's wrong with shopping for a bargain?
What's wrong with giving us the same price for the same items online, permanently.
Economic downturn, Unemployment, etc...
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It is the completely unnecessary screaming that annoys me the most.
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I cringed when watching that video on the news earlier. Why can't people be calm and walk into the store instead of running in and risk trampling someone (risking serious injury and even death). I'm sure there is enough stock in the store for all the people queuing up to get what they want.
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They need Brian Blessed with a big STOP sign, yelling "STOP!". That would halt everyone, even those walking by on the street outside, or make everyone hit the deck.