To think that people could manage to spend 2 whole days of the year not shopping?

[GaspodisWearingASantaHatHoHoHo]

I can't STAND that the shops are open on Boxing day. Just restrain yourselves you bargain-seeking-monkeys and spend one more day with your families.
It's the feckin corporate idiots who are to blame, shopes should NOT be allowed to open on Boxing day.

Thus Gaspod speaketh and her word was law.
Amen.

It has been thus in Scotland for many years.

It sucks, especially if you work in retail. Many shops operate a 'everyone in' policy on Boxing Day, the bastards.

Yanbu at all.

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I used to work in retail, and because I didn't have a young family (ie I was living at home with my parents) it was automatically assumed I would work.

Drove me bonkers, esp as we were never busy

I agree. Also isn't it mad how much people buy in for Christmas, the shops are only closing for one day, not a month!

They could close on christmas eve too.

I'm actually stunned that in our area the coscutter is open 24 hours including christmas day, the M&S simply food is open from 8am -10pm christmas day and lots of the little shops are open too. I understand those where the owners don't celebrate christmas, but what about the staff?

Exactly my point, it's not too much to expect to be able to satiate your materialistic needs for TWO WHOLE DAYS the poor staff who have to work...let's face it, it's not like doctors and nurse who HAVE to work because people need them. Nobody needs to shop on boxing day

I would quite like it if they closed Boxing Day.

Drove past a Tesco last Boxing Day and the carpark was rammed. Wtf is that all about? Surely no-one can eat every bit of food in one day?

I wish shops didnt open boxing day. I go shopping at xmas to cover up to and including new year..less milk and bread..lol

our little local M&S is open 24 hours over xmas. Just feel so sorry for the staff!

Agree they should close. It's family time, not shopping time. Hate they're open on Sundays too. We go to Switzerland quite a bit to see relatives and there nothing is open on a Sunday - including majority of restaurants - it's lovely, the public areas are all full of families enjoying time together. Hate our consumer mad society, but that said there may be some people who are happy to work Christmas/Boxing Day, spesh if they don't celebrate Christmas and it would be overtime rates...

TDWP - that can't be right? M&S isn't open Christmas Day?????? you mean Christmas eve surely?

yanbu

It's a 'simply food' and yes it is open.

YANBU

I hate the way the shops are crammed Xmas eve.
Milk and bread can last longer than 2 days, FFS!!

oh thank you for making me not feel like a freak. I'm not even religious but I hate the fact that this country is so shopping obsessed.
I mean , how much do you want a shop-soiled parka with £20 off? Enough to want to queue outside Next at 5am on Boxing Day morning?

I agree wholeheartedly.

Dec 26 is not a bank holiday here in France so I am often in the office. It always feels wrong but I accept it because in general public holidays and Sundays are respected.

Although I fear that this country is moving towards more Sunday and BH openings.

I can't understand what people possibly need to buy when the shops have only been closed for 1 day! People have trollies rammed full of stuff in the days leading up to christmas - if they forgot something, surely they can manage without it!!!

I agree, it's commercialism gone bonkers!!

I don't suppose the sales will be much of a draw this year as everywhere has been reducing things left right and centre for the last few weeks. Hoorah! I hate the sales!

I still laugh ( this was a couple of years ago) at an ex work mate who turned down an invitation to my evening drinks party. She wasn't drinking on Christmas Day so she could get up early and drive to Bluewater for the Next sale.

I so don't get the Next Sale fuss. It's the same shite a little cheaper.

at M&S being open on Christmas Day

how fecking desperate for something would you have to be to go out on Christmas Day.

I've told everyone in our house that there is 3 weeks of food and if they want something else they can get it themselves - I am sat here eating a mince pie and doing naff all for the next 2 weeks - apart from shopping online if there is anything thrilling in the sales.

I never understand the people that camp outside the Next stores in readiness for the sale. It's a load of old tosh, whether it's full price or half price, IMO.

I refuse to go out to the Sales on Boxing Day! It is sheer greed on the part of the shops-their workers should be at home with their families. They should be closed. I start celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve and then find that everyone has finished on Boxing Day -taken the tree down and gone to the sales!!Once I have finshed the Christmas shopping a don't want to go near a shop until after new year. I think shops like NEXT have an absolute cheek to get customers up at the crack of dawn-I really wish that when they opened their door there was no one there and they had to twiddle their thumbs until it was a decent hour! Rant over!