Shoppers hitting stores for after-Christmas sales
Christmas was just a break for shoppers, many of whom are headed back to stores today.
Whether they’re going to get refunds, make exchanges or chasing after-Christmas sales, it’s going to be a busy day.
At Walmart on North Gloster Street in Tupelo, Christmas items were marked down 50 percent and filled a small section near the front of the store near the pharmacy. Shoppers were loading up on candy, wrapping paper, gift boxes, blankets, you name it. If it had Christmas on it, they were loading up. At least a half-dozen customers had their shopping carts filled the brim – and this was at 7 a.m.
“It’s going to be a long day,” said one store employee. “It’s going to be a long week.”
One customer we spoke to was making her second trip back to the store; she had already filled one basket, paid for it and loaded her car.
“Getting stuff of next year,” she said. “Can’t beat it.”
Says the Christian Science Monitor, “December is a month filled with hundreds of sales, but what most shoppers don’t know is that the best sales of the month don’t begin until after Christmas. December 26 is when retailers begin to frantically discount the items they couldn’t sell earlier in the month.”
And, says USA Today: ”For all the holding off and cutting back that consumers have been doing, retailers are hoping for a huge after-Christmas surge. But, once again, they may be disappointed. That, however, is not going to stop retailers — from Wal-Mart to Macy’s to Target — from giving one last Santa-approved surge of after-Christmas deals.
“This is an especially big time for people who got gift cards to come and spend on what they didn’t get for Christmas,” says Sarah McKinney, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman. Indeed, it’s the single-most popular day to redeem Target gift cards, says spokesman Antoine LaFromboise.
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