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Next sale 2011 a bit of a con?

Does anybody else think like me that the next boxing day sale was/is a bit of a con?

I think that next have got a bit wise now and I'm convinced that they know that anybody who bothers to queue up fro five am on boxing day won't go home without buying something-otherwise ter friends and daily would say why did you bother wasting your time getting up at that hour on boxing day so I think that next play a bit clever and hold back on the "better" sales stuff -ie the stuff that they know will sell well in sales as it is a genuine bargain and put the least popular /old stock out first thing when they know that those who have bothers to turn up at six am will be so desperate to justify getting up at that hour of the morning that they will buy anything-even the tat that nobody else wanted.

I have noticed many a time in the next sale that you always get better stock on the second day of the sale despite the sales assistants stock response of "everything is out on the floor" I don't think it actually is-does anybody else agree?

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  • Eenymeeny
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    Try going into a Next store late afternoon on Christmas Eve, they clear the store and fill it up with absolute rubbish that comes out year after year until it sells. That was enough to keep me cosy in my bed on Boxing day...;)
    (And the thought that those poor assistants have only had one day off and had to be in work again probably about 5am!)
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