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Stephen's day sales at 6am

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  • #32
    GhostyMcGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭GhostyMcGhost


    I genuinely think I’m my lifetime Christmas will be 25th off and back to it next day

    People who have to work at 6am don’t just have Stephens day ruined, they have Christmas ruined too as they need to be in bed by 10pm and can’t have a decent drink. Some folks have parents down the country etc and have to make their own arrangements to get into work as public transport is severely limited

    Companies have 0 qualms about ramming home a “festive season” yet when it comes down to it, it’s 1 day off and your back in

    Guaranteed the CEO is at home on his 27th mince pie with his family

    Despicable. In a world of online sales there is absolutely no need for it and anyone supporting this charade needs to take a hard look in the mirror because they are part of the problem. No customers, the store wouldn’t open


  • #33
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Motivator wrote: »
    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.

    That's a bit much, is it like some things are limited to 90% off for as the stock lasts or something, as surely that would be a reason to go if you were into your shopping?

    Can't see the sales being much different as 9am as opposed to 6am other than stock levels possibly?


  • #34
    Loughc
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    spurious wrote: »
    It's not just 6am. Some of them queue from 4am for the Next sale in Blanch.
    Madness.

    Honestly anyone who queues at 4am for the balls Next sells need their head examined.


  • #35
    pgj2015
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    in my experience its the people with good jobs and lots of money who are up at 3am for this sale.


  • #36
    Joker2019
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 114 ✭✭Joker2019


    Notice it always seems to be English chains into this ****e


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  • #37
    Loughc
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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    in my experience its the people with good jobs and lots of money who are up at 3am for this sale.

    Not a chance. Most of the people I know who are at the next sales are jobless but yet have money to go constantly shopping.


  • #38
    Spanish Eyes
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    Loughc wrote: »
    Honestly anyone who queues at 4am for the balls Next sells need their head examined.

    Bored, need a bit of diversion from the Christmas prison with the relatives I reckon! Any port in a storm :p


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You'd have to be really desperate to spend to be at the shops at 6am on any given day, never mind the day after Christmas. The stuff on sale is probably the stuff they couldn't shift on the run up, reduced to get rid and make room. I really pity people in retail at this time of year, not paid nearly enough for the stress.

    The one and only exception I'd make is if someone was struggling to afford furnishing their house, for example, and there was something particular they wanted that became within their reach at the sale price, that was likely to sell out quickly. I understand going in for a one off for something you otherwise wouldn't be able to afford. Going to the sales as a form of recreation is a big no from me, though.


  • #40
    whisky_galore
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    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Bored, need a bit of diversion from the Christmas prison with the relatives I reckon! Any port in a storm :p

    At 6 frigging am?


  • #41
    cj maxx
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    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    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.

    Double time for the workers.
    Alot of workers at this time are students/ casual workers who lap up overtime and double pay. I don't see any issue with it.


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  • #42
    eviltwin
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    I don't get the fuss over next clothing. I've only ever bought a few bits from there and it's overpriced and fairly average quality.


  • #43
    Loughc
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    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Bored, need a bit of diversion from the Christmas prison with the relatives I reckon! Any port in a storm :p

    They could just stay in bed.... it is 4am.


  • #44
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    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....

    I know, we have 9 public holidays in the year, shops should be closed on public holidays and more restricted hours on Sunday, nothing to do with religion, give people a chance to spend quality time with the people that are important to them not hanging out in the likes of Dundrum, Blanchardstown or Mahon Point shopping centres indulging in retail therapy. There have been sales on in many of the shops in Cork since Black Friday, so what fantastic offers could the likes of Next have to warrant getting up in the middle of the night to be at the doors before 5am ????? Even earlier for those who have to work. People here are sleepwalking into an American style one day Christmas break and have only themselves to blame, if people weren't gullible enough to be out early on St Stephen's morning, the shops wouldn't be bothered opening.


  • #45
    Strumms
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    Spanish Eyes wrote: »

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

    Me either, I decided to treat myself to a ps4 in the sales one year there was a nice chunk knocked off in Argos... went in good and early and thank fûck for Argos is all I can say, got it and taxi straight outta there...it was like muppet armageddon In town... twats not holding doors open, skipping Qs in shops and for my taxi home, general wankerness.


  • #46
    Spanish Eyes
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    Loughc wrote: »
    They could just stay in bed.... it is 4am.

    Aah but staying in a house that is not your own can sometimes require an escape hatch :cool:

    If anyone has any other reason for this kind of insanity..... I am all ears!


  • #47
    Wilfuler.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭Wilfuler.


    Loughc wrote: »
    Not a chance. Most of the people I know who are at the next sales are jobless but yet have money to go constantly shopping.

    The bigger the lie the more they believe..


  • #48
    AulWan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,652 ✭✭✭AulWan


    I've seen "January" Sale advertisements already on the telly this evening. I saw one for Harvey Norman at about 7pm... probably about the time the shop closed its doors tonight. I feel sorry for the staff.


  • #49
    votecounts
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    Some of the staff are delighted with the overtime.
    Some people just like shopping and think they are getting a bargain.
    I won't be there so doesn't bother me. Let them at it


  • #50
    Capt'n Midnight
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    God be with the days when the January sales were after New Years Day.


  • #51
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    Well if you ask me it's just the ****ing shops selling all the XS and 4XL ****e that fits precisely nobody. And the 5 year old tablets that won't work. My advice: stay home and get drunk.


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  • #52
    WhiteMemento9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭WhiteMemento9


    Seamai wrote: »
    I know, we have 9 public holidays in the year, shops should be closed on public holidays and more restricted hours on Sunday, nothing to do with religion, give people a chance to spend quality time with the people that are important to them not hanging out in the likes of Dundrum, Blanchardstown or Mahon Point shopping centres indulging in retail therapy. There have been sales on in many of the shops in Cork since Black Friday, so what fantastic offers could the likes of Next have to warrant getting up in the middle of the night to be at the doors before 5am ????? Even earlier for those who have to work. People here are sleepwalking into an American style one day Christmas break and have only themselves to blame, if people weren't gullible enough to be out early on St Stephen's morning, the shops wouldn't be bothered opening.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ4SSvVbhLw


  • #53
    Spanish Eyes
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    God be with the days when the January sales were after New Years Day.

    Indeed, that would be New Year anyway!


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
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    Seamai wrote: »
    I know, we have 9 public holidays in the year, shops should be closed on public holidays and more restricted hours on Sunday, nothing to do with religion, give people a chance to spend quality time with the people that are important to them not hanging out in the likes of Dundrum, Blanchardstown or Mahon Point shopping centres indulging in retail therapy.




    I do and don't agree with you. Retail staff, though they may work weekends, don't generally work all the days of the week. Usually only 4 or 5. So you have different staff for the weekends that wouldn't be working during the week and would be perhaps thankful for the money and bit of work.


    Also, most people who work in retail, offices, etc. wouldn't get a chance to purchase as much during the week, as they would at the weekend when they're off work.



    I just think, though I'm not religious at all, that christmas is the one holiday of the year where people really should actually get to have a break. Close everything down for a day or two. I know some things still open (24 hour petrol stations, pubs, emergency services, etc.) but we even close the airport.


    The likes of Next should be boycotted for those sales at 6am on Stephen's Day. I genuinely think that anyone who attends such a sale is a selfish asshole, as they are the ones creating the demand for the Staff to have to get out of bed and go to the store to open up for 6am so some wagon can get a coat twenty quid cheaper.


  • #55
    Potential-Monke
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    I wouldn't be one to take part myself, but some of us work nights and an early opening would be appreciated at times. Plus, I'd imagine most people working over Xmas have agreed to for the monies (I have, working tonight/now and tomorrow/Xmas night). It's worth a lot of money, i'm fairly anti-social, and the idea of a house full of children is torture to me. So earning money while not being annoyed (it's Xmas, pretty sure I won't get a single call) just makes sense! Sleep during the day so don't have to interact, or listen to kids complaining about some feature of their overpriced electronics, or have to listen to drunken fools.

    Anyway, it's just another day. We used to close the country for nearly a week previously and people were giving out that nothing was open and there was nothing to do. Now places are open and there are things to do, and people are giving out... It wouldn't bother me if these businesses opened on Xmas day either, same for any celebration tbh.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The religion of consumerism requires constant worship.

    So true, it's sad.
    people really need to realise there is more to life.


  • #57
    Addle
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    Seamai wrote: »
    I know, we have 9 public holidays in the year, shops should be closed on public holidays and more restricted hours on Sunday, nothing to do with religion, give people a chance to spend quality time with the people that are important to them not hanging out in the likes of Dundrum, Blanchardstown or Mahon Point shopping centres indulging in retail therapy. There have been sales on in many of the shops in Cork since Black Friday, so what fantastic offers could the likes of Next have to warrant getting up in the middle of the night to be at the doors before 5am ????? Even earlier for those who have to work. People here are sleepwalking into an American style one day Christmas break and have only themselves to blame, if people weren't gullible enough to be out early on St Stephen's morning, the shops wouldn't be bothered opening.
    Enough people obviously don’t want to spend quality time with their families.


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
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    hurikane wrote: »
    I wish I could muster up some fake outrage and be a complete thanks whore. I can’t though. Who gives a fcuk?

    I don't, I simply don't to the shops!


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
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    I wish we didn't insist the country shut down for Christmas


  • #60
    andekwarhola
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    Won't be there if you paid me. If people want the overtime and feel the need to buy stuff, however, work away.


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  • #61
    2ygb4cmqetsjhx
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    Everyone would win so much more if everything was closed Christmas, Stephens day and the day after. Pure misery getting just one day off for Christmas.


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