Give us back Boxing Day!

[jimslip]

Sparky said:

"The stores would actually win as they would still get the same sales on the 27th and onwards without the overheads of opening on the 26th."

Why are we all so concerned anout the profits of the stores? We seem to have been conditioned into thinking that if the High Street makes loads of wonga, somehow its a barometer of our economic health. This would be true if it wasn't for the fact that 99% of all the goods we buy are made in the Far East! So a booming high st only means more BMW's for the Chinese and Taiwanese and more credit card debt for us.

Anyway, I've always thought what is it so important that you MUST buy it on Boxing Day, that couldn't wait until the day after?

[lob on]

Before Thatcher cut import tax and gave us VAT which was a flat tax on everything be it imported or not, our shops where empty of good cheap products, now we live in a great shopping country we are happy, you can have it all just like the rich, what's is the problem?

[sparky]

Why are we all so concerned anout the profits of the stores? We seem to have been conditioned into thinking that if the High Street makes loads of wonga, somehow its a barometer of our economic health.

You, me and probably most of the population are not.
However for this to have any chance of even being considered it must been seen not to be detrimental to profit by the store group directors and accountants and VAT and tax received by the government.

[william]

Ive noted that the past ten years we have never heard any good about xmas - its allways been doom and gloom.....Tells me that they are looking for the impossible. Why do they think it that we should save all year and then splurge it all over xmas. yeah right on mr commercialisim.

Think after ten years they would see that people have changed and are fed up with the whole thing. Even capital of commercialism does the xmas thing now but calls it thanksgiving....gets rid of those festive season dogooders that think it wrong to celebrate xmas and jump up and down complaining. Now we should adopt it and to hell with all the pomp and crap that goes under that banner.

[jimslip]

You naughty, naughty, consumers! How dare you allow Tesco's Xmas profits to tumble! Your job is to spend, spend and spend just like our simply adorable, "Working class" couple in our ads. Now you are all doomed!



Loveable, "Working class couple" doncha just love 'em, just like you and me!



Mind you I wouldn't mind putting a little treat in Fay Ripley's shopping basket!!wink!

[Gusset Sniffer]

No wonder Tescos profits crashed!

They had Antony Worrell Thompson thieving expensive bottles of wine and cheese over Christmas !bobby!

[lob on]

The Wednesday or Thursday before Christmas day the Sainsburys at Hedge End, Southampton, took in 24 hours of trading about 779,000 pounds that's about 540 pound a minute, over a 24hr period, so much for a recession!

Source of this information came from staff members who work at the store.