Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Stephen's day sales at 6am

1…5678911»

Comments

  • #302
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    I think you’ve taken the bolded line completely backwards.

    I think there's a little bit of what we are expected to think about this type of consumerism.
    Not really, we're expected to think about buying stuff when shops open up for extra hours, we're told in the adverts to go forth and shop, quite a significant number of people will see these adverts as an instruction to shop!
    Decades of conditioning turns people into consumers.


  • #303
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,852 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Not really, we're expected to think about buying stuff when shops open up for extra hours, we're told in the adverts to go forth and shop, quite a significant number of people will see these adverts as an instruction to shop!
    Decades of conditioning turns people into consumers.

    Going on the rest of the post I’d take it as the conditioning that we must feel it’s stupid for someone to want to shop. All of you shoving it down people’s necks that they must think this way was mentioned too.


  • #304
    completedit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Going on the rest of the post I’d take it as the conditioning that we must feel it’s stupid for someone to want to shop. All of you shoving it down people’s necks that they must think this way was mentioned too.

    Yeah thats what I was getting at more so. On a more deeper level though, this consumerist growth buy buy buy mentality is so ingrained into us. But given the field of play I don't think we can bemoan these Stephens day shoppers.


  • #305
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,972 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I had a reason to go out & buy stuff today because I needed new footwear to start the new year. I went into Lifestyle Sports in Dun Laoghaire & bought two pairs of trainers on sale for €50 each. I needed them because the rest of my runners at home were literally falling apart with large holes appearing on the top & bottom of them. I also had two pairs of hiking boots from Aldi bought at the beginning of the year because I had to buy them for doing outdoor work. Those ones I got from Aldi are nearly f*cked now. So the main decision that I had to come out with today was that I had to buy the new footwear in Lifestyle because I had no other choice in the end. I also had a €20 Lifestyle gift card to spend because I received that from a friend of mine for Christmas.

    I don't normally go into these sales after Christmas. I usually stay at home in bed when that happens. I couldn't stomach the idea of going in at 6am on St Stephens Day to go into a sale. Going into a shop to buy something that you wouldn't need just for these sales at that hour of the morning is bloody stupid.

    But really; we cannot predict as a society as to what people's minds are like when they go out & buy something as a 'need' or a 'want' when they are out browsing during the sales. These people might very much need these items to have for their own personal use in their day to day lives if they are out working throughout the year. When I specifically bought my new footwear today; they are described as an urgent purchase because I needed to wear them badly for day to day use outside of work. I wouldn't mind if most of the shops weren't open until 2 or 3 days later so that some people who work in retail to have some paid time off from work. However I do understand that young college students might need the extra money when they are working during these sales. But I also cannot predict how many of these people would actually prefer to stay at home because they working so hard during the year.


  • #306
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,247 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Come back to us in 5 years time when your son is working a part time job.
    Or perhaps more importantly, come back to us in 15 years time when your Masters-qualified son is working a part-time job on top of his full-time job to try to scrabble together a mortgage deposit, and has barely seen his two toddlers over the Christmas.


  • Advertisement
  • #307
    completedit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Also what about retail workers who wanna buy stuff and may have got the 26th off and this is there only time to shop, pick up some threads?


  • #308
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    completedit wrote: »
    Also what about retail workers who wanna buy stuff and may have got the 26th off and this is there only time to shop, pick up some threads?

    Online, do it while in work.... Win win win....


Advertisement