To be horrified by the NEXT sale?!

[SoloMumJustMuddlingThrough]

I popped into next yesterday morning, hoping to get my daughter some new clothes in the sale. I walked straight back out. Honestly I cannot believe what I was witnessing. People were using two hands to pull clothes off the racks and then shoving them into bin bags bags without even looking at them/checking sizes etc. I was expecting it to be be busy but this was something else! The shop had only been open less than an hour and it was almost cleared out. I can only assume that people were buying to resell (a quick look on vinted confirms that suspicion with a bunch of items I saw in the sale listed today at full price). It's the first time I've ever been to the post-Christmas sales. Has it always been like this?

YABU - it's a sale, first come first serve. Don't like it? Stay out the shops until mid January

YANBU - a sale doesn't give you the excuse to behave like an animal. Stop walking around eating and dropping food all over the shop, pushing, shouting and showing zero respect for staff & other customers. Also don't be a dick.

I half blame the shops. They don't care where their profits come from. If it had been a family run store i can guarantee a few people would have been told to royally fuck right off.

Next sales have been a thing as long as i can remember back in the 80s.
But I realised a long time ago that a lot of the sales goods are not their normal stock and produced for the sale, much poorer quality.

Agreed. I have never seen anything I would wear in there. Everything looks drab to me, oh and grossly overpriced 😆

Oh the Next sale has been a thing since at least the 90s. I dont know why - at the time their prices were out of reach of my teenage pocket for everyday wear, maybe they were higher end high street with massive markdowns? But i remember it always being a thing.

Buying a binload of clothes to resell on vinted - meh i couldn't get worked up about it. People do the same with lidl and aldi middle aisle stuff.

Pushing amd shoving and terrorising staff isnt pleasant behaviour anywhere.

I don’t understand the reselling thing; surely vinted shoppers will know they can get it cheaper from the retailers?

Next sales have been the same for decades, it's nothing new, long before the widespread internet use, let alone Vinted. I remember in the 90s when people would camp out for opening time hours in advance on Boxing Day. Absolute madness

The Next sale in particular has always been like this, yes - had a friend who worked there in the 90s and it was just as bad then! Something about it seems to attract the absolute worst kind of people.

I had a very calm day yesterday wondering around some shops that’s had sales including Next. Didn’t notice any crazy stuff.

It’s always been god knows how many seasons old clothes too (well it was when I braved it years ago). Won’t go anywhere near now.

Well if Next weren't able to sell these items at full price, hence them going in to sale, I doubt the resellers will. Hope they make a loss.

Vinted recently seems full of stuff that looks like charity shop rejects or things from lower to middle end retailers like Next at barely discounted prices. I hardly look on there anymore, let alone buy anything. I guess it's a sign of hard times that people try to make few quid but I wonder how much actually sells?

I've never understood the thing about the Next sale. Their clothes are mostly hideous
Neither do I. I fell for it one year when dor the first time, as a single mum, I didn't have my children overnight at Xmas. It was my way to cheer myself up feeling very low. I felt much worse afterwards. So disappointed. Crazy people getting stuff was frankly was just the cheap ugly stuff left over.

The weirdest thing is Next clothes is shockingly poor quality. I much rather shop at Matalan.

I popped into Marks yesterday early morning, not for the sale, but to buy some new nightwear and knickers. All the good stuff I saw before Christmas appeared to have been moved off floor and it was just random tat on sale. Had to fight through all the people trying on coats to get to the escalator.
I never ventured over the road to Next as had a VIP online slot and managed to get 3 items from Seasalt (only wear their plain stuff not the patterned) and a couple of Boden items. However a lot they had online in the sale appeared to be stuff they had dragged out from the darkest corner of their warehouse.

Next sales have been crazy for as long as I remember. You can get some absolute bargains but I personally wouldn't be up for the early morning queue and crowds.

My dd worked the next sale yesterday for the first time and she also used the word horrified. My dh dropped her off at 5.30am and he said people were running across the car park in the dark to get to the massive queue.

She said people were grabbing everything in sight and pulling things off one another. There was a woman lying on top of a pile of clothes shouting in to her phone to get someone to come and help her.

A woman screamed at my dd because an item scanned at £7.50 and the sticker said £5. Another woman tried to take a dinner service from behind the till that had another customers name on it.

Dd was shell shocked when she came out because it’s normally a nice job. She said she had recognised and served some of the customers before but then yesterday they were like lunatics.

I worked the next sale as a temp one Christmas when I was just out of uni and between jobs. It was the same then, although in those days it was going on the local market rather than vinted. It was absolute hell and people were awful because the queues were so bad. As a temp we used to get told at the end of a shift whether they wanted us back the next day, if you had plans and couldn’t work one day you were out!

Yep…i went to my local M&S sale last year and it was exactly the same as this. Never again! People act like animals.

I never go to the sales nowadays. I don’t know about now but these sales seemed to only stock horrible clothes that I’d never seen in those shops before. I was certain there was special sales stock that was only there in the sales. The clothes that I hoped would be in the sales were either no longer on display or still at full price.

Next sales have always been a 'thing'. I've no idea why personally!

I've just bought some gorgeous bits on the next site for DD and thrilled 😂

Made the mistake of going into boots yesterday to the chemist and jeez! It was like flies around shit around the sale bit 😂

It’s the same with Boots. They do a 1 day sale every year in early January where prices are slashed by about 80% mostly Christmas stuff but not always It’s even worse than Next

Yes it’s always been like this and I really don’t understand why people need to go to the sales and don’t just buy online. There were videos on Boxing Day of people at the Trafford Centre literally waiting for the shutters to open and swarming in like a bunch of locusts. I’ve got some really good bargains this year (at Next and elsewhere) without leaving the comfort of my own home?

I worked there years ago before vinted was a thing and it was crazy back then too. It wasn't a nice company to work for tbh, I dunno how it is now.

Thoughts and prayers or something.
Overpriced, overrated. Children grow quickly it's better to buy pre loved

The online sale used to be great for branded items - half price converse, adidas, Superdry etc.

I don’t get so much now but a few years ago would maybe easily spend £300 when the kids were younger.

I did look this year for Ugg trainers as my dd wanted those but none in the sale.

I bet at least 70% of people in the shop Next sale were after childrenswear as they grow so quickly. When DS was young in the 90s, I used to go to get clothes for him rather than myself in Next sale and got nice stuff for the following year. These people won't care that the adult clothes are not that good as they won't be buying them.