No crowds for Boxing Day
La Presse says there were no Boxing Day crowds on Sunday morning.
For some time I’ve seen pieces saying Black Friday’s popularity has been overtaking Boxing Day – for example, this piece from 2019. So it isn’t surprising.
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Kate
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steph 14:58 on 2021-12-26 Permalink
Black Friday sales this year were unremarkable – stores citing supply chain issues. The boxing day sales aren’t attractive either.
Ephraim 15:31 on 2021-12-26 Permalink
Really, how much more crap do we all really need to buy? If there were remarkable deals… maybe, but there aren’t. And there really just isn’t all the much more that we need, especially since there is no office “fashion show” (not that guys usually care about that.) What more do we need? The air fryer of the year? I have only one thing on my entire shopping list and it’s a replacement for something broken. Even looked at the deals on laptops… nothing exciting at all. Most of the laptops are SSDY (same shit, different year). It’s not like they are selling up new super speedy cheaper laptops… it’s the same laptops with maybe 5% more speed, same SSD, same memory, same OS (update was free anyway). Gotta make me excited if you want my money.
ant6n 17:36 on 2021-12-26 Permalink
Apple m1 laptops are pretty fast, but i guess they’ve been out a while and wouldn’t cause boxing day crowds
Dominic 23:15 on 2021-12-26 Permalink
Can confirm, Costco and Walmart were empty!
j ... tenmillionandone 23:25 on 2021-12-26 Permalink
Was walking around a bit today and I did see modest line-ups outside Gamestop and one other gaming-type store in Plaza St Hubert this afternoon.
dhomas 11:11 on 2021-12-27 Permalink
Lineups at game stores have been happening for months, regardless of Boxing Day. It’s usually when it leaks that a given store has received stock of PS5, which are still in short supply.
DeWolf 12:35 on 2021-12-27 Permalink
La Presse jumped the gun by publishing their story at noon… I took a walk downtown yesterday afternoon and Ste-Catherine was very busy. There was a block-long lineup outside Best Buy. The whole scene was busy enough that I didn’t feel comfortable walking there so I took a stroll down René-Lévesque instead.
Kate 10:30 on 2021-12-28 Permalink
Global actually went and had more of a look at Boxing Day.