Page 3 | The Next Sale. 6am.

IncessantNameChanger · 26/12/2024 22:46

I went early once and the entire boys section had already gone. I think resellers go in and grab the entire rail. I normally pop in later on in the day but its honestly a lot of very random stuff.

RedRiverShore5 · 26/12/2024 22:44

Why work there if you didn't like it or couldn't you get another job

batshitaboutcatshit · 26/12/2024 22:40

Physioterrorist · 26/12/2024 22:17

I worked at a smallish Next store for about 4-5 year when I was 19. You had to work both Christmas Eve after closing time to prep the store and Boxing Day for the actual sale or you would receive a disciplinary. I remember arriving for my Boxing Day shifts at around 5.30am and there was always a ridiculous queue, people would just bag armfuls of the rails without even looking at what they were picking up

I used to work there too and it was horrendous - felt like there was no time to relax on Christmas Day as you were anxious about the following day.

ForPearlViper · 26/12/2024 22:37

Pottedpalm · 26/12/2024 21:44

I can’t believe they persist with this bollocks. Do people still queue before dawn for their poor quality goods?

Curious. What responses are you hoping to achieve from you post? It appears that you want to mock a whole pile of people whose only sin is to shop somewhere you feel is below you, and want a bargain. Are you expecting people to join you in your mocking? Why?

Or do you have some helpful and supportive reason for posting that I have missed.

Frankbeverleyandthebutlers · 26/12/2024 22:34

And buggery bollocks to queuing for anything at that ungodly hour.
I feel for the staff having to get in on boxing day at that time or before.
Limited public transport,fare and a half taxi's.

YourGladSquid · 26/12/2024 22:34

When we say queue… are we saying in person? That sounds bonkers.

Frankbeverleyandthebutlers · 26/12/2024 22:30

There's a lot of shipped in shit that's not the normal stock that you'd have seen in-store before/during Christmas.

RedRiverShore5 · 26/12/2024 22:27

The quality is poor because it's cheap, what do people expect

Londonrach1 · 26/12/2024 22:25

Who shops at next still. Only been in for 20 years now. Quality is really poor when I last went on, on 20 years ago. Even then never understood why anyone queued to go shopping.

Judellie · 26/12/2024 22:24

My daughter was working in TK Maxx today but she started at the more civilised time of 9 am
A few places were shut tho, Poundland, Home Bargains, Next, Chuckling Cheese, WH SMith, M and S and randomly, the Adventrue golf place in the Metrocentre.
Just about everywhere shut at 7 pm including Burger king.
Not sure I'd ever be anywhere at 6 am for a sale!

Itisjustmyopinion · 26/12/2024 22:20

When I was buying my first house about 20 years ago I did the 6am thing and got absolutely loads of house basics (plates, cutlery, duvet, pillows, curtains etc) for 50% off. Saved me an absolute fortune

Have never done the 6am start again but have done the sale both in store and online. Last year they cancelled most of my order which was ridiculous so I don’t feel like bothering again

TheChosenTwo · 26/12/2024 22:20

Ugh. Like a pp I worked Christmas Eve and Boxing Day at Next as a teenager - one year and one year only. It was such a gross display of selfishness (customers) that I left in January and found myself a new job so I wasn’t in that position again!
The quality went really downhill between having my dds and then my ds that we stopped shopping there entirely. Not expensive clothes but the seams were wonky, buttons would fall off after one wear, stitching coming apart, hems curling, everything just appeared very tatty very quickly.

AhBiscuits · 26/12/2024 22:19

Here's the crap we can't sell. Want it?
Nah, I'm good.

Makemineasoda · 26/12/2024 22:18

I remember my neighbour going at 4am one year to get to the front of the queue - she came back having spent about £200 on non-sale full price stuff! Madness.

I got a text from them a couple of days ago giving me a “slot” for the online sale (which I never asked for). Nah, you’re alright.

pinkstripeycat · 26/12/2024 22:18

The very first time my sister introduced me to the next sale it started at 9am and there was us and 5 other people in the store! It must’ve been around 1992. The changing rooms were even in use. DSis and I bought so much stuff and I don’t think we needed to take much back as we had time to look at everything.

Two years later it started opening at 7am and the queues were huge. I would carry things while DSis grabbed what she could. That was the last time we went. I refused to ever do the 5am grab that followed years after that.

Physioterrorist · 26/12/2024 22:17

I worked at a smallish Next store for about 4-5 year when I was 19. You had to work both Christmas Eve after closing time to prep the store and Boxing Day for the actual sale or you would receive a disciplinary. I remember arriving for my Boxing Day shifts at around 5.30am and there was always a ridiculous queue, people would just bag armfuls of the rails without even looking at what they were picking up

RedRiverShore5 · 26/12/2024 22:16

If people didn't expect to buy such cheap clothes it wouldn't be such poor quality, this is a problem with a lot of the High Street

Hurdlin · 26/12/2024 22:14

Pottedpalm · 26/12/2024 22:05

Sale starts tomorrow

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Ah right. Still batshit to que any day at 6am! But at least staff got today off. I hope they pay well in overtime.

goingtotown · 26/12/2024 22:13

I wouldn't queue at 6am if Next were giving stock away. It's mostly rubbish quality.

RedRiverShore5 · 26/12/2024 22:13

I doubt that people queue up nowadays for sales, I think the shop opens early but I doubt there is a queue

Bournetilly · 26/12/2024 22:12

I went once, years ago when I was pregnant with DC1. I get a vip sale slot now so thankfully don’t need to go, I probably would if the sale wasn’t online as most of DCs clothes are from next.

Wittow · 26/12/2024 22:09

Just crackers. I could not be arsed.

RedRiverShore5 · 26/12/2024 22:09

I ordered my stuff on Sunday 22nd

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Pottedpalm · 26/12/2024 22:08

Jingleballs2 · 26/12/2024 22:07

It's been online since yesterday think

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It’s the queueing before dawn aspect I was commenting on.

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Jingleballs2 · 26/12/2024 22:07

Pottedpalm · 26/12/2024 22:05

Sale starts tomorrow

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It's been online since yesterday think