With the way things are going, people are saving every penny and awaiting the next crisis.
Harrry-Otter on
There’s no public transport today, and any half-decent bar or restaurant is closed.
Would make for a pretty bleak shopping trip compared to just scrolling for shit on my iPad with a glass of Sangiovese in hand.
thecarterclan1 on
Same reasons as Black Friday; the general public know the game by now and aren’t interested in a “sale” that’s not *actually* a sale.
Ok-Fun119 on
Nothing is discounted anymore.
They just raise the price by 20% and then give you that as a discount and belive people can’t tell the difference.
Its not the same as it was 10 years ago when the supermarkets wants to sell the stock they have leftover from Christmas.
Now its all meticulously calculated and there’s no excess and no discounts due to an excessive amount of leftover stock.
SonHyun-Woo on
As avid sales shopper, the “sales” were genuinely awful on boxing day this year. Retailers made it seem like the discounts were the biggest ever for the year, but they are marginally discounted at 10-20% at most and they have marked items down lower at earlier times of the year. Good deals on Boxing day are a thing of the past now.
qwerty_1965 on
If every day is a sales day then the big sales day is irrelevant, retailers themselves must know that and it’s largely a silly media tradition to keep Boxing Day sales stories alive
janner_10 on
It’s odd people still fall for the sale scams and actually travel into the town centre, pay for parking and walk around aimlessly on fucking Boxing Day.
jeanclaudebrowncloud on
Because we haven’t got any money anymore and all they sell is useless overpriced shite
NostrilWarbler on
Out in London today. Almost zero decent deals to be had.
gaz3028 on
Cheshire oaks seemed to buck the trend today, it was rammed!
TerribleQuestion4497 on
it’s almost as if people realised that boxing day sales are actually made up BS, and If you really want to buy something which one do you prefer: fighting your way through suddenly very spry 70+ year olds or buying it online with pint in your hand.
bantamw on
I went to the White Rose Centre a few weeks ago in Leeds. It was 90% clothes shops and a few restaurants and a cinema. Oh and a couple of jewellers. Absolutely useless.
The high street for me is dead. I buy stuff I need and nothing more. And I get the feeling I’m not the minority here. People just don’t have the money now to just burn it on pointless stuff.
I walked along Regent St & Oxford St a few months ago and realised I’m not the target market for pointless designer stuff. I felt entirely out of place.
AncientStaff6602 on
Discounts arnt that good anymore. If they want to shift goods, give proper discounts that makes it worthwhile coming out
Potential_Bird_8597 on
I got up to go to the local M&S this morning for a few bits and bobs. Walked 10 mins down the road to the bus stop and decided to check the opening time on my phone while I waited.
CLOSED.
Might explain it in some part.
Dark_Akarin on
What sales, you mean the over or full priced goods that I don’t need?
Average_sheep1411 on
This is what happens when the disposable income gets kicked to shit for the last 4 years and you are an adult. You have to be responsible, it’s kind of I need rather than I want. I want some £300 boots I also need gym trainers and a new coat, so…. I also said I wasn’t doing Christmas because I can’t afford to use 3 months disposable income as well as pay for the things I need. And I think it’s disrespectful to give people crap just to say I did Christmas but it seems some of family don’t view it that way. Also first year no big charitable donations at Christmas.
Astriania on
People who are actually looking for a sale know that the prices today are likely not any lower than they were on Black Friday, or in the new year.
The retailers have really screwed themselves over with importing Black Friday, in my opinion. The people who want to find things in the sale used to take their mates or family out to the Boxing Day sales, but now they will have already been in November, so no-one is going on Boxing Day any more.
It’s not a particularly good experience as other comments note, because public transport and half the shops and other services are closed.
xander-mcqueen1986 on
Not surprised. Sales absolutely shite, hardly anything knocked off to be classed as a decent saving.
CDHmajora on
Eh. I briefly looked online to see if any stores were doing discounts on any warhammer 40k stuff.
Nothing. Not a single discount that didn’t already exist, or that wasn’t blatantly a lie (for example, why do stores keep saying a tank is £50+ and its on “sale” for £42.50… when its ALWAYS 42.50?).
If no stores online storefronts are updating themselves with some sales. Why would i bother getting out of my comfy jammies in my warm toasty home, to go on a desolate high street with half the stores closed, just to see the same prices anyway?
GainsAndPastries on
Tesco had already took down their Christmas stock this morning, even worse was it was all sat in their waste bin round the back, a lot of that food was still in date.
TheObrien on
It’s hard to get excited for Boxing Day sales when the retailer inflated the price for Christmas and is now discounting it back to the summer price..
Ok-Inflation4310 on
Bored this morning so my wife was reminiscing about how she used to go to the Boxing Day sales.
I said it a pity they died out years ago. Oops.
GunstarGreen on
I went for a long walk today to a retail park, but only to grab some lunches for the week. It was more to stretch my legs. I’m not interested in going to the high Street and spending even more money. And I think most people only really go to rhe shops as an excuse to get out of the house.
Fabulous-Wrap9367 on
Well I live a few miles outside of a major city centre (still urban) and there was only 1 bus every 40 minutes, so this is hardly surprising
AvatarIII on
Do people go shopping on boxing day any more? Isn’t it just the day everyone just sees the other side of their family?
just_jason89 on
Two simple reasons!
A: The sales are shit… The deals are not deals. And often on the items people don’t really want. You’re not gonna find the most popular selling trainers with 50% off.
B: People simply don’t have the expendable money they used to. I personally have stopped buying things “because I fancy it”. If I don’t need new trainers, I don’t buy new trainers.
Deepmidwinter2025 on
Is this the same BBC that was posting article about what to do with unwanted gifts?
Is this the same BBC that has been posting about tight household budgets all year?
Is this the same BBC that has broadcast documentaries about the effects of plastic pollution?
Maybe, just maybe, folk want a day off from buying “stuff” after a day devoted to giving “stuff” to each other.
Then again when folk were forced to have free time during covid lockdowns – they mostly did shopping because of the lack of anything else in their lives.
GuybrushFunkwood on
Why on earth would you want to tronk around the shops when in the space of 10 minutes, and in the comfort of my own home from my iPad I can buy a new TV, book a holiday, order lunch and crack one off to a couple of naked women wrestling. Granted the wife’s visiting family passed comment on my activities but still ….
Katharinemaddison on
Why would or should we go out shopping on Boxing Day? Any economy that depends on this kind of thing is seriously flawed.
dreistreifen on
Heard the bbc news on the radio earlier today announcing how thousands of people were making their way into city centre shops to spend, spend, spend and just knew it was a load of old bollocks.
Turbulent-Grade-3559 on
I think the sales are usually poop now with not much on offer for not much less than retail. There’s no must have deals that seem to offer value that people will get excited about.
As a society we have lurched from crisis to crisis since 08 with very little economic stability. People are more guarded with what decreasing disposable income they have
On top of that doom and gloom reporting is the media’s game. They get the clicks for it. Sadly it can cause a bit of an economic death spiral too.
ihavetakenthebiscuit on
Perhaps if they wanted me to spend money, they can let me have some left over after all of the bills have gone out…
srdgbychkncsr on
You’re telling me people aren’t spending MORE money, immediately after Christmas, during a cost of living crisis? Quelle sur-fucking-prise…
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With the way things are going, people are saving every penny and awaiting the next crisis.
There’s no public transport today, and any half-decent bar or restaurant is closed.
Would make for a pretty bleak shopping trip compared to just scrolling for shit on my iPad with a glass of Sangiovese in hand.
Same reasons as Black Friday; the general public know the game by now and aren’t interested in a “sale” that’s not *actually* a sale.
Nothing is discounted anymore.
They just raise the price by 20% and then give you that as a discount and belive people can’t tell the difference.
Its not the same as it was 10 years ago when the supermarkets wants to sell the stock they have leftover from Christmas.
Now its all meticulously calculated and there’s no excess and no discounts due to an excessive amount of leftover stock.
As avid sales shopper, the “sales” were genuinely awful on boxing day this year. Retailers made it seem like the discounts were the biggest ever for the year, but they are marginally discounted at 10-20% at most and they have marked items down lower at earlier times of the year. Good deals on Boxing day are a thing of the past now.
If every day is a sales day then the big sales day is irrelevant, retailers themselves must know that and it’s largely a silly media tradition to keep Boxing Day sales stories alive
It’s odd people still fall for the sale scams and actually travel into the town centre, pay for parking and walk around aimlessly on fucking Boxing Day.
Because we haven’t got any money anymore and all they sell is useless overpriced shite
Out in London today. Almost zero decent deals to be had.
Cheshire oaks seemed to buck the trend today, it was rammed!
it’s almost as if people realised that boxing day sales are actually made up BS, and If you really want to buy something which one do you prefer: fighting your way through suddenly very spry 70+ year olds or buying it online with pint in your hand.
I went to the White Rose Centre a few weeks ago in Leeds. It was 90% clothes shops and a few restaurants and a cinema. Oh and a couple of jewellers. Absolutely useless.
The high street for me is dead. I buy stuff I need and nothing more. And I get the feeling I’m not the minority here. People just don’t have the money now to just burn it on pointless stuff.
I walked along Regent St & Oxford St a few months ago and realised I’m not the target market for pointless designer stuff. I felt entirely out of place.
Discounts arnt that good anymore. If they want to shift goods, give proper discounts that makes it worthwhile coming out
I got up to go to the local M&S this morning for a few bits and bobs. Walked 10 mins down the road to the bus stop and decided to check the opening time on my phone while I waited.
CLOSED.
Might explain it in some part.
What sales, you mean the over or full priced goods that I don’t need?
This is what happens when the disposable income gets kicked to shit for the last 4 years and you are an adult. You have to be responsible, it’s kind of I need rather than I want. I want some £300 boots I also need gym trainers and a new coat, so…. I also said I wasn’t doing Christmas because I can’t afford to use 3 months disposable income as well as pay for the things I need. And I think it’s disrespectful to give people crap just to say I did Christmas but it seems some of family don’t view it that way. Also first year no big charitable donations at Christmas.
People who are actually looking for a sale know that the prices today are likely not any lower than they were on Black Friday, or in the new year.
The retailers have really screwed themselves over with importing Black Friday, in my opinion. The people who want to find things in the sale used to take their mates or family out to the Boxing Day sales, but now they will have already been in November, so no-one is going on Boxing Day any more.
It’s not a particularly good experience as other comments note, because public transport and half the shops and other services are closed.
Not surprised. Sales absolutely shite, hardly anything knocked off to be classed as a decent saving.
Eh. I briefly looked online to see if any stores were doing discounts on any warhammer 40k stuff.
Nothing. Not a single discount that didn’t already exist, or that wasn’t blatantly a lie (for example, why do stores keep saying a tank is £50+ and its on “sale” for £42.50… when its ALWAYS 42.50?).
If no stores online storefronts are updating themselves with some sales. Why would i bother getting out of my comfy jammies in my warm toasty home, to go on a desolate high street with half the stores closed, just to see the same prices anyway?
Tesco had already took down their Christmas stock this morning, even worse was it was all sat in their waste bin round the back, a lot of that food was still in date.
It’s hard to get excited for Boxing Day sales when the retailer inflated the price for Christmas and is now discounting it back to the summer price..
Bored this morning so my wife was reminiscing about how she used to go to the Boxing Day sales.
I said it a pity they died out years ago. Oops.
I went for a long walk today to a retail park, but only to grab some lunches for the week. It was more to stretch my legs. I’m not interested in going to the high Street and spending even more money. And I think most people only really go to rhe shops as an excuse to get out of the house.
Well I live a few miles outside of a major city centre (still urban) and there was only 1 bus every 40 minutes, so this is hardly surprising
Do people go shopping on boxing day any more? Isn’t it just the day everyone just sees the other side of their family?
Two simple reasons!
A: The sales are shit… The deals are not deals. And often on the items people don’t really want. You’re not gonna find the most popular selling trainers with 50% off.
B: People simply don’t have the expendable money they used to. I personally have stopped buying things “because I fancy it”. If I don’t need new trainers, I don’t buy new trainers.
Is this the same BBC that was posting article about what to do with unwanted gifts?
Is this the same BBC that has been posting about tight household budgets all year?
Is this the same BBC that has broadcast documentaries about the effects of plastic pollution?
Maybe, just maybe, folk want a day off from buying “stuff” after a day devoted to giving “stuff” to each other.
Then again when folk were forced to have free time during covid lockdowns – they mostly did shopping because of the lack of anything else in their lives.
Why on earth would you want to tronk around the shops when in the space of 10 minutes, and in the comfort of my own home from my iPad I can buy a new TV, book a holiday, order lunch and crack one off to a couple of naked women wrestling. Granted the wife’s visiting family passed comment on my activities but still ….
Why would or should we go out shopping on Boxing Day? Any economy that depends on this kind of thing is seriously flawed.
Heard the bbc news on the radio earlier today announcing how thousands of people were making their way into city centre shops to spend, spend, spend and just knew it was a load of old bollocks.
I think the sales are usually poop now with not much on offer for not much less than retail. There’s no must have deals that seem to offer value that people will get excited about.
As a society we have lurched from crisis to crisis since 08 with very little economic stability. People are more guarded with what decreasing disposable income they have
On top of that doom and gloom reporting is the media’s game. They get the clicks for it. Sadly it can cause a bit of an economic death spiral too.
Perhaps if they wanted me to spend money, they can let me have some left over after all of the bills have gone out…
You’re telling me people aren’t spending MORE money, immediately after Christmas, during a cost of living crisis? Quelle sur-fucking-prise…