Stephen's day sales at 6am

Away With The Fairies · 24-12-2019 10:41PM #1

Who the fcuk is up for a sale at 6am the day after Christmas.

I really pity the workers who has weeks of Christmas shyte, one day off and back in for the sales. It's all about money and it's sad and depressing.

boombang · 24-12-2019 10:42PM

Who is open going to be open at 6 am?

spurious · 24-12-2019 10:42PM

It's not just 6am. Some of them queue from 4am for the Next sale in Blanch.
Madness.

punisher5112 · 24-12-2019 10:44PM

spurious wrote: »

It's not just 6am. Some of them queue from 4am for the Next sale in Blanch.
Madness.

Absolutely nuts....

Suppose when you don't work it's easy enough done....

Can't understand why we can't have an actual rest day like many euro countries...

Everything on a Sunday is shut....

25th and 26th should be closed shop....

Away With The Fairies · 24-12-2019 10:45PM

spurious wrote: »

It's not just 6am. Some of them queue from 4am for the Next sale in Blanch.
Madness.

I hope it rains on them.

Addle · 24-12-2019 10:45PM

Online sales on now.
Relatives are shopping away all around me. It’s not very festive.

FFS, but can people not just take a break for a couple of days, and give everyone working in retail and the service industry a break too.

JohnnyFlash · 24-12-2019 10:45PM

The religion of consumerism requires constant worship.

Tom Mann Centuria · 24-12-2019 10:47PM

Which means the workers have to be in 2 or 3 in the morning. Disgraceful.

Love Aldi and Lidl for actually closing for 2 whole days and giving their workers a little bit of time off.

Spanish Eyes · 24-12-2019 10:50PM

I think those who participate in this are bored, or need to escape.

I hate the opening of the sales on 26th. Far too fkn early really. We are just recovering from one consumer fest FGS.

Anyway, I don't participate, couldn't think of anything worse!

boombang · 24-12-2019 10:51PM

boombang wrote: »

Who is open going to be open at 6 am?

I thought this had to be a wind up, but I see Next in Cork will be open at 6am. I'm all for allowing people to do as they wish within limits, but I can't imagine many retail staff doing this voluntarily.

https://mahonpointsc.ie/shop-the-sales-on-st-stephens-day/

fritzelly · 24-12-2019 10:54PM

Worst still all this crap on sale is stuff they couldn't sell the rest of the year but people see 50% off and think it's a bargain

hurikane · 24-12-2019 10:56PM

I wish I could muster up some fake outrage and be a complete thanks whore. I can’t though. Who gives a fcuk?

mojesius · 24-12-2019 10:56PM

I'll be in a food and red wine coma at that time.

Used to work in a restaurant next to a shopping centre. Stephens day was fcukin mental every year with sad bastards out shopping with angry children in tow who just wanted to be home playing with their new toys. Do these people not have a load of leftover turkey stuffing sambos to get through?!

bee06 · 24-12-2019 10:58PM

boombang wrote: »

I thought this had to be a wind up, but I see Next in Cork will be open at 6am. I'm all for allowing people to do as they wish within limits, but I can't imagine many retail staff doing this voluntarily.

https://mahonpointsc.ie/shop-the-sales-on-st-stephens-day/

The Next sale is always full of absolute ****e as well or maybe that’s just because I get there a few days late. I do know a few people who used to go when their kids were smaller. I’ll probably be up at 6am with my two year old but still wouldn’t contemplate it. Not fair on the staff. They could do the same thing on the 27th or 28th and also get people in.

I remember the good old days when the January sales actually started in January!

Lillyfae · 24-12-2019 10:58PM

fritzelly wrote: »

Worst still all this crap on sale is stuff they couldn't sell the rest of the year but people see 50% off and think it's a bargain

Don’t Next have a website? W in T holy F like.

Spanish Eyes · 24-12-2019 10:59PM

A bargain is something you NEED but cannot afford, but can stretch to it in the sales.

Fair enough. But there is a high price to be paid in relation to stress, parking, etc.

Online is the way to go I suppose, but that is pandering to the Want not Need cohort too.

I am sorry, I just don't get it.

Rubberchikken · 24-12-2019 11:00PM

shops that do this will continue to do it while muppets will get up at stupid hour to purchase crap.

893bet · 24-12-2019 11:00PM

Life is too short to waste on ****e like that.

24-12-2019 11:00PM

Go sick, get a different job, or put up with it. The world turns.

X111111111111 · 24-12-2019 11:05PM

You'd want to be some sad piece of s h it to be asking your employees to be coming in at that hour on Stephens day. I mean you'd understand if it was a Gardai or HSE workers etc... but to sell cheap tat ffs. Shower of miserable twats.

markc1184 · 24-12-2019 11:06PM

Feel sorry for the staff in Next Drogheda having to do those hours knowing their jobs are gone a couple of days later.

gipi · 24-12-2019 11:09PM

markc1184 wrote: »

Feel sorry for the staff in Next Drogheda having to do those hours knowing their jobs are gone a couple of days later.

Is it closing?

markc1184 · 24-12-2019 11:09PM

gipi wrote: »

Is it closing?

Yeah the 28th or 29th I think

24-12-2019 11:10PM

gipi wrote: »

Is it closing?

They’d be nuts to go anywhere near it if that was the case.

punisher5112 · 24-12-2019 11:15PM

markc1184 wrote: »

Feel sorry for the staff in Next Drogheda having to do those hours knowing their jobs are gone a couple of days later.

Wouldn't bother me hoole going in...

TheValeyard · 24-12-2019 11:18PM

We should be more like the Europeans and keep ships closed in the 25th and 26th. Really scummy to ask people to come in from families and their homes so some sad sap can get 33% off something they dont need.

Motivator · 24-12-2019 11:20PM

The guards were called to the sale in the local Next a few years ago. Absolute mayhem at 5 in the morning because people were skipping the queue and a brawl started.

Next gear is absolute trash anyway, I can’t believe people buy it.

whisky_galore · 24-12-2019 11:21PM

TheValeyard wrote: »

We should be more like the Europeans and keep ships closed in the 25th and 26th. Really scummy to ask people to come in from families and their homes so some sad sap can get 33% off something they dont need.

The plebs in this country rise to the bait every time.

c.p.w.g.w · 24-12-2019 11:22PM

spurious wrote: »

It's not just 6am. Some of them queue from 4am for the Next sale in Blanch.
Madness.

Those folks need to have a chat with themselves...

Tom1991 · 24-12-2019 11:24PM

fritzelly wrote: »

Worst still all this crap on sale is stuff they couldn't sell the rest of the year but people see 50% off and think it's a bargain

This is the fact 99% forget.
I wasn’t going to buy that jacket because I didn’t like it all that much and it was 70 brick.Now it’s 30 brick I have saved 40 Euro I’m a genius. Forgetting there 30 Euro worse off and the company is still making a healthy profit.

lawred2 · 24-12-2019 11:26PM

spurious wrote: »

It's not just 6am. Some of them queue from 4am for the Next sale in Blanch.
Madness.

Losers

Stephen's day sales at 6am

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