Next sale Boxing Day

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AIBU to think that no one in the world needs to go shopping at 6am on Boxing Day? Every year it's the same at my local store and I think it's completely out of order. The staff have to get there at 4am, so after working their fingers to the bone on the lead up to Christmas for low pay they then don't even get to enjoy Christmas Day with their families but have to get up at 2:30/3am for people fighting over half price trousers.

Lots of people need to work over Christmas I know but shopping is hardly an emergency is it?!

I agree, and also can’t understand why anyone bothers with the next sale, or any sales, the stuff they put out is the dross no one wanted originally, I’ve rarely found anything worth buying (although maybe that’s because I’m not there at 6am waiting for the doors to open)

YANBU. People need to get a bloody grip.

*disclaimer - I have not and never will queue at that time of the morning for a sale... esp. at this time of year, its cold!

But I do think you are BU to make this about the shoppers when they have zero control over what time the shop opens, what day the sale starts etc. - If they want to buy nice (but IMO expensive) clothes for less then the only way to do that is in the sales, and for this one it is early on Boxing Day.

Maybe ask Next their opinion on Twitter about what they pay staff, their opening hours etc.

Unless you are someone who wants something in particular most sales are a waste of time.

YANBU. People who buy into that are shits who should find something more fulfilling to do with their lives.

YANBU
Around here there can be people (who don't celabrate Christmas) queing before midnight. These people also buy each item in 4 different sizes and then return 95% of what they buy.

Yanbu. Why do people do this? I've never understood it, no one can be that desperate for clothes surely?

Another one here who thinks Next is a load of shite, but I do find it weird
how people (on MN and in RL) seem to get so very furious with the idea of shops being open around Christmas and the poor workers can’t be with their families. It’s hard for retail workers yes but Lots of other “trivial” things are open too - cinemas, pubs, restaurants, the internet, the telly, mumsnet - and someone has to staff them too.

But nobody seems to complain about that.

The sale starts online on 21st december

I don't get it. I'd be a bit embarrassed to be queuing at the crack of dawn for some slight savings on bog standard clothes but hey ho.

I find it much better to 1) shop online and get the stuff delivered for store pick up, and 2) have a look in the sale about a week after it starts, when the people who bought 4 sizes on Boxing Day morning have returned the 3 that don't fit.

I got loads of kids' clothes last year, really well reduced. I do think the kids' clothing sale is good value. I've never found much in the in-store adult clothing sale, but I've got a few things online.

It doesn't make me angry, I just don't get why anyone would want to go shopping immediately after Christmas when you've just done all the Christmas shopping. I usually try and avoid shops as much as possible and And I hate Next anyway but each to their own I guess.

This thread has reminded me to sift through the VIP sale preview. 2 young men, growing like weeds, to keep in respectable clothes.

@pickachew I do that but find all the stuff I wanted has gone by the time my slot starts 🤨

As someone who has worked these kind of sales i agree with you OP. Staff dont really get a christmas. You work late christmas eve so spend christmas day tired and then go to bed early because you have to be up early on boxing day. I am so glad i dont have to do that now.

I just dont get why non essential places need to be open.

I get cinemas pubs etc are open too but more than any other industry, retail workers so often get treated like absolute garbage by the public, especially around Christmas. I know, I've worked in a shop!

I think it also grates as Christmas has turned into such a commercial buy fest that surely at least the retail workers should get some of the nicer parts too, spending time with family. The sky won't fall in if shops are closed for two days. It actually puts me off shopping in Next if they think that is an acceptable way to treat staff.

I used to work the Next sale. You HAD to work all the sales, aswell. Customers would line up from 4am. It sometimes got violent I'm not even joking.

The clothes in the Next sale are awful. I don't know where they dig them up from because it's stuff I've never seen in their shop before!
There are a few good things in the homewares but that's it.

YANBU.... As a person who did the credit cards for them. I was walking distance to the office and so always had to do the awkward shifts. The heating was off, no cafe for a coffee, and a never ending queue of fucking declined cards. Just stop buying shite people.

YANBU. I've always worked in customer facing roles and I always draw the short straw and end up working all of Christmas.

I think everything other than essential services should be closed over Christmas and Boxing Day.

My ex-housemate worked at Next when we were students. It was grim. She couldn’t go home for the Xmas break because she’d have to be up at 4am for the sales. One year, a customer left scratch marks on her arm because she was trying to put stuff out on the rails, and this loony customer was desperately grabbing them. Apparently most of it is old shit anyway like unsold Xmas jumpers, bikini briefs leftover from summer with no matching tops, old returns etc.

I also worked with someone who boasted of spending 1.5k in the Next sale in one year. Some people really love that shop.

I don’t get what is so great about Next you’d want to queue at 6am for it. Some of the kids clothes are nice but I rarely buy anything for me there, apart from their jeans.

Wish everyone would boycott these sales. They are taking the piss out of absolutely everyone with them.

Next won't be ever getting a penny off me.
Since I heard about this in 2017, they haven't, either.
It's a despicable way to treat staff.

It’s all absolute shite!

Clothes they have had hanging around since 2012, there was a punch up at my local one a couple of years ago over a jumper ffs (wasn’t even that nice) would like to add i heard that on the local radio I’ve never get up at 4am to go!!

I hate next with a passion.