Liffey Valley sale starts at 4AM

jimmynokia

NEXT in liffey valley are starting sale at 4am monday the 27th december
is this mad or what?
the staff must be well paid

here is the quote from liffey valley website

would you get up at 4am for a sale?

If you have your eye on something in next, and are waiting for the sale, this news is for you. next will be opening at 4am on Monday, December 27th, kicking off another great next sale

carolmon

did this a couple of years ago, no trying on of clothes allowed, it's a mad scramble for everything, people are basically in there loading trolleys of clothes and shoes etc enough for a year's supply of family clothing.

I was a bit of a novice so got a couple of bargains but if I go this year I'll have a take no prisoners approach and bring an accomplice to help carry the loot

The good news is everything is returnable so it's easy to just grab whatever catches your eye and try it on at home at your leisure.

Corruptedmorals

I'm surprised they're not opening today at 4AM, they really are arseholes with their ridiculous sale start times. How are staff supposed to get there if they don't drive or can't get a lift? Stay in the Clarion the night before? I hate Christmas in retail, you're supposed to recover from the christmas rush and then jump almost straight into mental sales where customers will be giant arseholes. Again. They should just open at a normal time on the 27th, and everyone who opens on the 26th just go back to the 27th and give everyone who works there a whole TWO days off for christmas. Brown Thomas closed this morning due to flooding, serves them right for opening!

Mark200

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

I'm surprised they're not opening today at 4AM, they really are arseholes with their ridiculous sale start times. How are staff supposed to get there if they don't drive or can't get a lift? Stay in the Clarion the night before? I hate Christmas in retail, you're supposed to recover from the christmas rush and then jump almost straight into mental sales where customers will be giant arseholes. Again. They should just open at a normal time on the 27th, and everyone who opens on the 26th just go back to the 27th and give everyone who works there a whole TWO days off for christmas. Brown Thomas closed this morning due to flooding, serves them right for opening!

Sure why not just open once a year and give staff 364 days off

lovin a bit of christmas rage

jimmynokia

Mark200 wrote: »

Sure why not just open once a year and give staff 364 days off

thats what a good job is called LOL
sure they would make enough to pay the staff

Yakult

Its all for the wimmins, mad for a good bargins on clothes they will wear once!

Corruptedmorals

Mark200 wrote: »

Sure why not just open once a year and give staff 364 days off

Christmas in retail is a nightmare and 4am is a difficult start time- no busses, no nitelinks outbound. Would be nice if they opened 9-9 instead of 4-7pm or whatever it is. They will still make a killing either way.

P_1

Opening at 4am is just a bloody joke. Hope this Next place gets flooded and forced to close ala Brown Thomas.

digme

jimmynokia wrote: »

NEXT in liffey valley are starting sale at 4am monday the 27th december
is this mad or what?
the staff must be well paid

here is the quote from liffey valley website

would you get up at 4am for a sale?

If you have your eye on something in next, and are waiting for the sale, this news is for you. next will be opening at 4am on Monday, December 27th, kicking off another great next sale

look at the idiots on this video. fat dumb americans lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zBWjlkKDpA

digme

pithater1 wrote: »

Opening at 4am is just a bloody joke. Hope this Next place gets flooded and forced to close ala Brown Thomas.

maybe they want to see how many clowns turn up ,you sound very disappointed lol

MagicSean

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

I'm surprised they're not opening today at 4AM, they really are arseholes with their ridiculous sale start times. How are staff supposed to get there if they don't drive or can't get a lift? Stay in the Clarion the night before? I hate Christmas in retail, you're supposed to recover from the christmas rush and then jump almost straight into mental sales where customers will be giant arseholes. Again. They should just open at a normal time on the 27th, and everyone who opens on the 26th just go back to the 27th and give everyone who works there a whole TWO days off for christmas. Brown Thomas closed this morning due to flooding, serves them right for opening!

i expect the staff who can't work due to travel will probably say so. I'm sure ther's plenty of seasonal staff on anyway. I myself think its retarded that everything in the country shuts down for Christmas. It's just a big dinner at the end of the day.

Degag

jimmynokia wrote: »

If you have your eye on something in next, and are waiting for the sale, this news is for you. next will be opening at 4am on Monday, December 27th, kicking off another great next sale

If i had my eye on something, i'd just buy it, instead of waiting until the 27th, to get up at 4am in the freezing cold, possibly cue for hours, just to get a few euro off! Insanity!

krudler

digme wrote: »

look at the idiots on this video. fat dumb americans lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zBWjlkKDpA

There'd be just as many fat dumb Irish people if that was shot in Dundrum

jimmynokia

Degag wrote: »

If i had my eye on something, i'd just buy it, instead of waiting until the 27th, to get up at 4am in the freezing cold, possibly cue for hours, just to get a few euro off! Insanity!

agreed this is why i posted this
to get up at 4am for a fcukin sale is just outright loopy
i know things are bad but thats stupid
be great for the breadman/milkman or paper man doing his rounds he could drop in.
i will be only going to bed at that time going on the lash today LOL

jimmynokia

krudler wrote: »

There'd be just as many fat dumb Irish people if that was shot in Dundrum

looks like they got out of rehab for the weekend LOL

blow69

jimmynokia wrote: »

NEXT in liffey valley are starting sale at 4am monday the 27th december
is this mad or what?
the staff must be well paid

here is the quote from liffey valley website

would you get up at 4am for a sale?

If you have your eye on something in next, and are waiting for the sale, this news is for you. next will be opening at 4am on Monday, December 27th, kicking off another great next sale

I work at Next and no we are not getting paid any extra. I usually get the bus to work there because it would take well over an hour to walk it. With no buses running at that time and my bike in need of a few repairs, I'll have to either walk it or hopefully my housemate's bike isn't chained out the back.

Finishing at 9a.m though so not all entirely bad. Tried to double my hours for Christmas Eve the day before however, so wouldn't put it past them to try and increase my hours the second I walk in the door tomorrow.

They can fúck off..

phasers

A lot of people go to Next, buy two trolleys worth of crap and send it to other countries to sell on. Or something. A woman told me what they did but I didn't understand it.

The Next sale hasn't been good in years anyway.

jimmynokia

blow69 wrote: »

I work at Next and no we are not getting paid any extra. I usually get the bus to work there because it would take well over an hour to walk it. With no buses running at that time and my bike in need of a few repairs, I'll have to either walk it or hopefully my housemate's bike isn't chained out the back.

Finishing at 9a.m though so not all entirely bad. Tried to double my hours for Christmas Eve the day before however, so wouldn't put it past them to try and increase my hours the second I walk in the door tomorrow.

They can fúck off..

your fcuking right pal well said

MagicSean

blow69 wrote: »

I work at Next and no we are not getting paid any extra. I usually get the bus to work there because it would take well over an hour to walk it. With no buses running at that time and my bike in need of a few repairs, I'll have to either walk it or hopefully my housemate's bike isn't chained out the back.

Finishing at 9a.m though so not all entirely bad. Tried to double my hours for Christmas Eve the day before however, so wouldn't put it past them to try and increase my hours the second I walk in the door tomorrow.

They can fúck off..

Do you not have an employment contract? Are you not getting bank holiday rates for tomorrow or have you already got them?

dan1895

The only stuff thats ever in these sales is crap that won't shift at full price. Knock a couple of quid off and all of a sudden its a bargain! Been working in retail years so I know.

amacca

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

I'm surprised they're not opening today at 4AM, they really are arseholes with their ridiculous sale start times. How are staff supposed to get there if they don't drive or can't get a lift? Stay in the Clarion the night before? I hate Christmas in retail, you're supposed to recover from the christmas rush and then jump almost straight into mental sales where customers will be giant arseholes. Again. They should just open at a normal time on the 27th, and everyone who opens on the 26th just go back to the 27th and give everyone who works there a whole TWO days off for christmas. Brown Thomas closed this morning due to flooding, serves them right for opening!

disgusting indictment of humanity

eventually if this ridiculous rat race continues...no one will have a single guaranteed day off during a year...dignity, who needs it..


work work work.....produce produce produce....consume consume consume...die die die...the show must go on....why should a whole country grind to a halt for a couple of days.....there are still insatiable consumers out there to satisfy....the whole idea of a day off (any day off) is ridiculous ..... keep thy nose to the grindstone worker!

wtf does anyone gain form a 4am sale opening....will Next make enough profits to justify staff costs etc...are there that many morons willing to wait around/get up/queue to get in for probably fcuk all savings on the mass produced ****e they sell anyway? If there are that many morons then maybe we should be looking at some sort of selective breeding policy?

In any event, I'm never doing any business WITH Next again after seeing this

Mark200

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Christmas in retail is a nightmare and 4am is a difficult start time- no busses, no nitelinks outbound. Would be nice if they opened 9-9 instead of 4-7pm or whatever it is. They will still make a killing either way.

It's a 'nightmare' because there is so much demand. Presumably they've calculated that they'd make more money if they opened at 4am

lol5605

They do it every year.

MagicSean

amacca wrote: »

disgusting indictment of humanity

eventually if this ridiculous rat race continues...no one will have a single guaranteed day off during a year...dignity, who needs it..


work work work.....produce produce produce....consume consume consume...die die die...the show must go on....why should a whole country grind to a halt for a couple of days.....there are still insatiable consumers out there to satisfy....the whole idea of a day off (any day off) is ridiculous ..... keep thy nose to the grindstone worker!

wtf does anyone gain form a 4am sale opening....will Next make enough profits to justify staff costs etc...are there that many morons willing to wait around/get up/queue to get in for probably fcuk all savings on the mass produced ****e they sell anyway? If there are that many morons then maybe we should be looking at some sort of selective breeding policy?

In any event, I'm never doing any business WITH Next again after seeing this

I can't work out if this post is serious or not. Why should someone have a guaranteed day off? I'd prefer to be able to take my holidays when I want, not in the cold winter, and definitely not on a day where everything is closed because people feel some moral compulsion to go to mass and clean their soul for one occasion in the year. Lookin at you post you'd swear Ireland was run on slave labour.

The shop will open at 4 a.m. so that the rush can be spread out over the whole day and they can get more customers in because retail turnover has been very low this year and they need to try and make up for it somehow. Yes there are people who will get up for it. There will also be people who have been working all night, so other people can drink themselves into comas in homage to Jesus, who can now call in on their way home from work and pick up a few times. And yes they will make enough profits to probably cover their Christmas pay bill. I'm sure Next will be devastated that you will not be doing business with them. I'm sure they have lost a lucrative deal there.

On the other hand, your post has done a lot to convince me that selective breeding might be a good idea.

Minstrel27

A 4am opening is splendid advertising

El Horseboxo

Fúck that shíte. The best sales are online anyways and i prefer shopping in the nip.

expectationlost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVD-m8urJU

opening at 4am creates a sense of urgency this is what next is looking for

TheZohanS

expectationlost wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVD-m8urJU

OMG it's like 9/11 all over again!

tony 2 tone

expectationlost wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVD-m8urJU

Wow, bunch of fat bastards! Acting like animals.
Don't see what the big deal is, shops are only closed for one day.

Corruptedmorals

expectationlost wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVD-m8urJU

People have died in Black Friday stampedes. Insane stuff. Yeah Next have every right in the world to open on the 27th to make up for a bad year. 4AM though is scabby since no public transport runs at that time and I'd be fairly certain that a lot of their staff live in Leixlip/Lucan/Maynooth/Celbridge and further away and that it won't just be staff living beside the centre in parts of Clondalkin rostered for tomorrow. I think busses start running generally at 6, if they even opened at half 6 it would help a lot. AND more customers then as well, not everyone drives. I think it's sad that clearly there IS the demand to open at such a retarded time. I'm glad I worked in a really crappy nightmare busy flagship Dunnes for 3 years but it never opened on the 26th, only once bothered to open on New Year's Day and never had mental sales.

OutlawPete

Ludicrous.

All though, it might be fun if people were only allowed in at that time if they were to fail a breathalyser test and prove they had been drinking all night.

amacca

k_mac wrote: »

I can't work out if this post is serious or not.

arra yearrah, in trooo irish fashion me lad it was and it was'nt

k_mac wrote: »

Why should someone have a guaranteed day off?

right you are .... it should be possible to keep em working till they drop, the lazy scammers....sure most of them aren't able to appreciate the beauty of the world we live in any way.

k_mac wrote: »

I'd prefer to be able to take my holidays when I want

as indeed so would I (oops, it seems as if I can what with being self employed......I know I cant help being a smug fcuk especially after drinking a half a bottle of lovely cloudy natural cider)

however I worked many jobs and I enjoyed my time off from them more than most of the jobs themselves I have to admit and cant help feeling that if days off during the year were removed I would have less holidays overall -- quite a lose lose situation for a man of leisure like myself you see


get rid of these silly outdated religious holidays = to my mind less holidays overall longterm = more hard work to make other people more money and people like I was the same or less money in my mind so I would be quite happy to be a hypocrite if it means more time off...more of this fabled quality of life thing I hear people talk about so much as more and more of it gets sacrificed for seemingly sensible reasons.

eg: in one job I had 20days annual leave +christmas day + bank holidays or something (cant quite remember now)

remove that xmas day thing and I doubt my annual leave allocation would go up to 21 days.......maybe short term...but eventually its gone...like a puff of smoke...you feel me brother?...just go with it...some enforced time off will do you good...yeaaaaah.......more cider!!!

k_mac wrote: »

not in the cold winter, and definitely not on a day where everything is closed because people feel some moral compulsion to go to mass and clean their soul for one occasion in the year. Lookin at you post you'd swear Ireland was run on slave labour.

you had to go bring religion into it........look man I agree, this religion thing can be a drag (especially when they start forcing their beliefs on you) .....and maybe thats what people wanted the day off for in the past...maybe some still want it exclusively for religious reasons...but speaking for the myself I used to be (and hopefully some others) I just wanted it off because I liked the time off....others want to see their family

k_mac wrote: »

The shop will open at 4 a.m. so that the rush can be spread out over the whole day and they can get more customers in because retail turnover has been very low this year and they need to try and make up for it somehow. Yes there are people who will get up for it. There will also be people who have been working all night, so other people can drink themselves into comas in homage to Jesus, who can now call in on their way home from work and pick up a few times.

Oh no you didnt, Its not a Jesus thang! Obviously they are doing it because they believe they can make money out of it....and they probably have some research to back it up...I just think its a bit sickening.

if they start opening at 4am, then other shops start opening at 4am...an opening arms race ensues etc

staff initially get paid some sort of bonus money for unsociable hours (maybe) then not at all as it becomes the norm etc stephens day fcuked as you are now working at 4am that morning etc its all a bit greasy to me when I feel its not necessary but perhaps I'm just not forward thinking enough

final point of order on the above btw...I doubt anyone that is drinking themselves into a coma is doing it in homage to Jesus. I heard many reasons when I've been drinking down the local but I've yet to hear or indeed cite the old "homage to jesus" defence...although, I think I might try it on for the laugh next year.

k_mac wrote: »

And yes they will make enough profits to probably cover their Christmas pay bill. I'm sure Next will be devastated that you will not be doing business with them. I'm sure they have lost a lucrative deal there.

Ah, you've got me there, I doubt they will either. I'm not sure I ever bought anything there (moleskin jacket maybe..who knows) but I will be making sure never to buy anything from them or a parent group again nonetheless.....its just unnecessary in my opinion...I can see a reason for nightclubs to stay open until 3am/4am, I can see a reason for emergency services to be on call at night etc etc....I fail to see a reason for somewhere to buy cardigans to open at 4am.

btw I'm not so sure they will make enough profits to justify this crap long term...unless of course they only have to pay peanuts to their workers for it.

k_mac wrote: »

On the other hand, your post has done a lot to convince me that selective breeding might be a good idea.

ha ha ..well thats something at least..oh wait...you mean.......aaaah, thats not very nice. Daddy needs another little drinky now.

I think it's ridiculous, but I don't really get sales. I think there's something quite pathetic about queuing up overnight or getting up at 3am to battle through crowds for more 'stuff' you probably don't need instead of spending time with loved ones or whatever. Any time I see people being interviewed standing out in the rain for hours so they can buy shoes, I admit that I do think they're total muppets. It's one thing to queue up for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but a bloody clothes shop selling mass produced, plain garments?

amacca

Ryan Bitter Backstroke wrote: »

Any time I see people being interviewed standing out in the rain for hours so they can buy shoes, I admit that I do think they're total muppets. It's one thing to queue up for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but a bloody clothes shop selling mass produced, plain garments?

shhhhh

dont think...know

I'm here to release you from any uncertainty you may have had.....they are total muppets...muppets one and all........ every last one of them....m.u.p.p.e.t.s.

with the right advertising budget...I could sell them my toenail clippings and make them so desirable they would queue up for it for days on end.

MultiUmm

digme wrote: »

look at the idiots on this video. fat dumb americans lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zBWjlkKDpA

The way they all rushed in at the start, it reminded me of a zombie film where people rush through the doors of a building trying to flee the horde. \o/ Ridiculous stuff, what are they playing at? If a Wii fit is important enough for someone to run for dear life at 4am, I think they're lacking in common sense. Severely ...

battries not included

starbelgrade

I've never bought anything in Next - their clothes are awful.

Capt'n Midnight

smells like, mothballs