Boots Sale

Giggle

The list of stuff on line as got very short and most of it out of stock

loveasale

Had a lovely lay in ,,,,,,!

wendym

catswiththumbs wrote: »

Are you having us on ?

Always was, I thought.

Desperado99

peacellily wrote: »

I was hoping for some Yankee stuff but just running through the site now and so much OOS.. May keep an eye out for soap and glory but really not much left by the look of it..

Does anyone know if they add loads of stuff to the website in time for the sale.. I can't remember ?

There's a few candles in stock right now, I've never managed to get any Yankee stuff in the 70% off sale though it always seems to go OOS at 50%

luxor4t

stephenliverpool1 wrote: »

No tomorrow at 0800hrs. Get up early to avoid disappointment.

catswiththumbs wrote: »

Are you having us on ?

wendym wrote: »

Always was, I thought.

See post 15 of this thread.... a variation on "Boots Sale Rule 4" imo :rotfl:

Storck

Desperado99 wrote: »

There's a few candles in stock right now, I've never managed to get any Yankee stuff in the 70% off sale though it always seems to go OOS at 50%

I was lucky and got some Woodwick when the 50% off started online but they had gone within minutes.

Plenty of large Yankee in the new store in Bradford when I was down there the other day.

moneysaver890

Anyone know what the stock levels are like at Meadowhall? further away for me but my local has no Soap & Glory sets left.

Bessdog

I got a lovely Reis candle in the 70% sale last year - thought it would be a lovely present - I dropped it at home and it smashed but I could still butn it

Tescodealqueen

moneysaver890 wrote: »

Anyone know what the stock levels are like at Meadowhall? further away for me but my local has no Soap & Glory sets left.

Don't know about the stock but would avoid Meadowhall Boots sale, it's like a free for all rugby scrum and you have a job to get near the shelves.

I went two years running and would never do it again

cagsd

I was a seasoned pro of the Boots 75% off sale harking back to around 2005. Every year either my mum or I would manage to find out - or work out - when it would take place, and I'd be there as the store opened, along with maybe half a dozen other shoppers - we'd stroll round calmly, picking things up off the shelves, take our time looking at them and I'd come home about 9:30 with about 4 huge bags containing £100s worth of stuff to do all the birthdays that year and some towards next Christmas!
This pleasant, leisurely sale fashion continued until about 2012, when I was shocked and horrified to arrive a minute or two after the shop opened, to find hordes of large, rough women with two trolleys each, just shoving their arms out and swiping stuff off the shelves! What on earth had happened to the sale I so enjoyed? Oh yes, it had been publicised everywhere, that's what. The world and his dog were there and it was no longer fun. For a couple of years I continued to go but just timidly reached out past the grabbers and bought 2 or 3 items, rather than the bags full I used to get.
Then the discount was reduced and it became a 70% sale. Not sure if it was coincidence but this seemed to be the same time that the full prices had rocketed. Where you used to get a lovely gift for say £12 full price (so £3 at 75% off) it would now be £20 for pretty much the same thing, so £6 after 70% off. Not only did the prices go up, but the quality of the gifts went down.
So in 2015 I decided I wasn't bothering again, and it seemed strange not to get caught up in the hype but I figured it was such an unpleasant experience and the gifts were such non-bargains, that what was the point.
Last year I did pop in around lunchtime on Sale day as my mum wanted to have a look, but the shelves were bare other than some Lynx sets that were cheaper everywhere else anyway, and some wrapping paper!
I really believe that this sale became a victim of its own success. It's sad but I'm just not interested in it any more, it was fun while it lasted though!