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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: bodiam on December 17, 2011, 02:17:39 PM
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Panic Saturday: Brits To Spend £1.5m A Minute
Christmas shoppers are expected to spend around £1.5m a minute today on what is set to be one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
It is thought over 11 million people will spend more than £1bn, according to a report by shopping comparison website Kelkoo.
It said consumers will spend £128 each on Christmas presents and other goods, taking the average family spend this festive season to almost £700.
The last Saturday before Christmas traditionally sees shopping centres up and down the country packed with people purchasing presents.
Christmas sales make up around 18% of annual retail sales.
Those who cannot face the crowds on the high street will also be making orders on the internet to make sure their gifts arrive in time for the big day.
Online sales are expected to soar by over 16% to £13.4bn this Christmas compared with last year, and compared to a 2% fall on the high street, according to the Kelkoo report.
Books, DVDs and electrical items are likely to be among the items that shoppers are buying to give to their loved ones.
And parents who have left their shopping to the last minute will be rushing to get the must-have children's toys for their little ones.
This year's most popular toys include a doll that lives in a hydration tank and a Moshi Monsters Treehouse, according to the Toy Retailers Association (TRA) .
Norman Black, head of marketing at Brent Cross Shopping Centre in north west London, said sales of jewellery and watches have risen by 20% in the run-up to Christmas.
He said: "Shoppers still want quality at Christmas, particularly with something as personal as jewellery. In fact, last week one of our jewellers sold the most expensive watch they had ever sold here, at a cool £80,000."
More than a million shoppers are expected to pass through the centre's doors between now and December 25.
Meanwhile the Trafford Centre in Manchester has seen one million shoppers over the past nine days.
Director of operations Gordon McKinnon said: "There is no doubt that many people have left it later this year, holding off spending until as late as possible, but we are now into the final run-in and people realise there are only a few days left."
The busy day will provide a much-needed boost to traders who suffered poor sales in November.
whacky115 shrugs: Wankah:
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BM and his amazon link......... noooo:
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Intermong shopping is the best thing I've ever discovered. :thumbsup:
I'm proud to say that I haven't been anywhere near ANY fithy shitty overcrowded germ/disease filled hell hole full of vile obnoxious sheeple of a store at all this year. Absolutely SWEET as a whole wagon load of nuts, cloud9:
Of course another big plus is the fact that if you're not too sure which whatever to purchase, you can read all the customer reviews to weed out the crappy stuff first.
I've found some really great stuff on Avinsome, and I've treated /am treating meself too. :thumbsup:
What you bought me anyway Bodeebum? lol:
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Except when posty delivers your stuff to the wrong address, like whistle:
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Talking of which, wrong address, I was sent an email late yesterday afternoon asking me to settle an account...
fair enough. The statement was dated July and they'ed sent the invoice and statements to the wrong address whistle:
shutup: shutup:
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Intermong shopping is the best thing I've ever discovered. :thumbsup:
I'm proud to say that I haven't been anywhere near ANY fithy shitty overcrowded germ/disease filled hell hole full of vile obnoxious sheeple of a store at all this year. Absolutely SWEET as a whole wagon load of nuts, cloud9:
Of course another big plus is the fact that if you're not too sure which whatever to purchase, you can read all the customer reviews to weed out the crappy stuff first.
I've found some really great stuff on Avinsome, and I've treated /am treating meself too. :thumbsup:
What you bought me anyway Bodeebum? lol:
cloud9:
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Talking of which, wrong address, I was sent an email late yesterday afternoon asking me to settle an account...
fair enough. The statement was dated July and they'ed sent the invoice and statements to the wrong address whistle:
shutup: shutup:
Talking of which I purchased a bread-maker from a seller on Ebay the day after it arrived I received an email from the vendor telling me that it had not yet been dispatched. The day after that I received a counter to oven from the same seller, addressed correctly to me which I had not ordered. Having taken the delivery note off the sender has two different addresses. I don't want the sodding thing but will not pay the postage to get it back to the seller. Sent them an email, have they responded, have they hell. It is going outside tomorrow. evil:
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Online sales are expected to soar by over 16% to £13.4bn this Christmas compared with last year, eeek: :thumbsup:
That'll be down to us lot then! lol: :thumbsup:
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Online sales are expected to soar by over 16% to £13.4bn this Christmas compared with last year, eeek: :thumbsup:
That'll be down to us lot then! lol: :thumbsup:
cloud9:
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I thought people were meant to be cutting back ? rubschin:
The Brat came back last night after going Christmas Shopping. It would appear she has bought me a pressy eeek:
But clever ploy that is ...
" have you bought all my presents " ? she asks
"Why" I say
" Well I've spent all my money now and I really need this pair of headphones I saw today " ::)
" How much are they " ? ... suspicion beginning to be aroused
"£130" innocently replies
eeek: eeek: eeek: eeek: eeek:
"That'll be no then " she huffed and stomped noooo:
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A hundred and thirty quid??? eeek:
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Different planet she lives on noooo:
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Different universe she lives on noooo:
whistle:
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I was reluctanty dragged to Harlow yesterday by my daughter so she could get a prezzie for her mum. Thousands of people spending money like it's going out of fashion (come to think of it, it may be rubschin: ) Where's this recession then?
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I was reluctanty dragged to Harlow yesterday by my daughter so she could get a prezzie for her mum. Thousands of people spending money like it's going out of fashion (come to think of it, it may be rubschin: ) Where's this recession then?
Transferred to a credit card APR 29.9% variable, terms and conditions apply.
whistle:
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I was reluctanty dragged to Harlow yesterday by my daughter so she could get a prezzie for her mum. Thousands of people spending money like it's going out of fashion (come to think of it, it may be rubschin: ) Where's this recession then?
Transferred to a credit card. whistle:
Did not the recession start that way. rubschin:
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I was reluctanty dragged to Harlow yesterday by my daughter so she could get a prezzie for her mum. Thousands of people spending money like it's going out of fashion (come to think of it, it may be rubschin: ) Where's this recession then?
Transferred to a credit card. whistle:
Did not the recession start that way. rubschin:
Yes but it's all been transferred to a new card interest free for 6 months, but then APR 39.9% variable.
Your country is at risk and could be taken off you if you don't keep the payments up.
It's the same ole scenario. Jam butties today, mouldy ole dry crust tomorrow, but hey, why worry ey? whistle:
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http://youtu.be/e3XsnSEMock (http://youtu.be/e3XsnSEMock) this bloke had the right idea..........until he bottled it at the end. BAH HUMBUG :thumbsup:
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D'yu know Body bum, I've never actually watched that filum. redface:
Got to luv the miserable owld twat though ey? cloud9: