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?!

My sister works for next in the offices not a shop. The sale gear is bought in specially for the sales. It's all crap.

From the time I worked there over a summer I don’t think a lot of people who went to the sale actually needed the stuff! A lot of people were just downright rude, manners went out of the window and picked up anything like supermarket sweep then as soon as returns opened they brought it all back.

I rarely sign petitions but signed one about shops being closed on Boxing Day. Could not the local police help end this- do they have powers to insist the store is closed until a certain time on public order grounds? Or make it very clear that they will not attend any crimes there unless children or old people are hurt?

I strongly disagree with shops and restaurants opening at xmas, they should close for the two bloody days! I say this as someone who has to work over xmas but at least I work for an essential service. Give families a break for flip sake!

Wish everyone would boycott these sales

Ditto. What can anyone possibly need to get from Next (or similar) at 6am on Boxing Day that they couldn’t wait an extra day for. I shop at Next from time to time although I’ve never been to their sale but judging by the website, it’s nothing to get up at dark o’clock for.

This makes me wonder if people still queue up for the Harrods sale - I recall seeing those queues on the news years ago, where people were outside the store overnight i.e. sleeping outside Harrods on Christmas Day. Loons! )

I'm too hungover on boxing day to piss about at sales.
Shops should be closed and we should all refuse to shop on that day.

YANBU. And I think the NEXT sale is bollocks.

They are the only shop in my town's shopping centre of 300 or so shops to have a queue of 300+ people waiting from 6am. I call bullshit, and believe these are people paid to queue. There is no reason why NEXT should have 100's of people in the queue at 6am on Boxing day. Their stuff is overrated and overpriced.

Yanbu.
No non-emegency employees should be forced to work on Boxing day. This sort of craziness should wait until the 27th. (Disclaimer; I've never bought anything in Next).

Normally I would agree with this thread but this year we have MIL for Boxing Day so on balance, I think queuing for hours in the early morning cold and fighting with strangers to get my hands on random ill-fitting clothes that I neither want nor need seems like the more pleasant option.

YABU. Lighten up. Some people enjoy fighting for clothes. Who cares? And if a staff member doesn't want to work christmas then they can just fucking well quit can't they. There's no working on boxing day on the dole!

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.

Supply and demand. Shops will only open early on Boxing Day if there are sufficient shoppers to make the outlay worthwhile. If no one turned up to shop on Boxing Day morning the shops would stop opening on Boxing Day morning. But people do, because FOMO dictates that they must.

I think it starts far too early but I assume they do that to ramp up the desperation excitement. It's probably the perfect excuse for people to get a break from their families too.

I will probably go because it's the only time I have a day off when there's someone else at home to look after the dcs. I get most of my dcs clothes from Next sales because they have nice stuff at good prices. The women's stuff is a load of shit though.

@GreenDinosaur

I don't understand it at all.

I get what people saying about shops opening if people are prepared to shop on that day but I think the government should step up and do something to protect the rights of overworked and underpaid retail workers. No clothes shop needs to open on Boxing Day. If people want to get out on Boxing Day go for a bloody walk.

I sound bitter but all this 'buy stuff now!!!' Stuff that gets fed to us incessantly from October gets right on my tits. Most shops start their sales online early now too so there is literally no need.

I don’t see why anyone needs to go shopping on Boxing Day. Sad, sad, sad

I used to go to the early morning sale at next. I had 3 young children and was up anyway. Got lots of good children’s clothes, you can also get gifts 1/2 price and some nice household stuff.
Fast forward 20 years and 2 of those children work in next part time, fits in well with university, can do early evenings and weekends.
They hate doing the early mornings, one is in 8pm-4am this week. But it’s only twice a year.
They said the majority of the customers in the morning are those who don’t celebrate Christmas and they buy tons!
As a side note, don’t bother going to the sale this year, I went in yesterday and there’s 100s of pyjamas.

Next is shite at the best of times, never mind January Sales.

Anyway, sales all start online before Christmas anyway. Why get up at the crack of arse on Boxing Day when you can buy stuff online at your leisure?

It beggars belief doesn't it. People dragging themselves out of bed to buy a load of tat. No thanks.

I personally don’t ever queue for the sales but that’s because I don’t need to. I should imagine that there are many people out there that want nice things but can’t afford to pay the full price and rely on these sales.

This makes me wonder if people still queue up for the Harrods sale - I recall seeing those queues on the news years ago, where people were outside the store overnight i.e. sleeping outside Harrods on Christmas Day. Loons! )

I remember this being on the news every year! If I recall correctly, it was back when January sales actually started in January, so people would camp outside for days.

I mean, a tiny part of me understands why you’d queue for a sale at a designer shop. You might actually get some cool stuff. Next is like supermarket quality clothes. Why would you drag your hungover arse out of bed for that?

I'm not sure, you know, dids. I sort of understand people queuing at Hype etc for limited edition this that or the other, and I understand people getting sharp-elbowed at yellow sticker time at Tesco out of need.

But waking up in the middle of the night to be first in line at Next? Where the sale is online too? Where it seems to be widely accepted that cheaper, older stock is brought out especially? When a whole host of cheaper retailers will, max six hours later, launch their own sales (also online)?

I try to understand it every year, and every year I fail. The best I can get to is that people have been cooped up at home on 25 December and need to get out, and need an "occasion".

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with people NEEDING to shop in the sales but they could just open 9am on 27th for the sales and it would be exactly the same except the workers would get a christmas!

I remember seeing a top for sale that ld bought 3 years previously. I do my sales shopping from home. Iv had the odd bargain but u work on the premise that it's only a bargain if its half price or less