Boots Sale

Africat

Desperado99 wrote: »

Well done to all the Boots staff working this morning, it can't be an easy job on sale day :T

I echo this.
Don't know how the staff at the store I was in kept their patience this morning the way some folk were carrying on!! Completely unnecessary....

Africat

Queue at mine didn't seem as long as normal this morning but once inside it was as chaotic as ever.
Couldn't move down the aisle for people who were seemingly working together and not allowing anyone else to get near the staff who were trying to bring cages of stock out.
Masses amount of stock brought out including star gifts which people were hoarding.
Absolutely tons of Yardley gifts and Kendall & Kylie o whatever it is.
Staff were telling people who were seemingly hogging the most sought after items that they could only buy 6 of an item. For what it was worth as those working together would just go and buy 6 each or pay for some upstairs and some downstairs. Very difficult to control in reality!!

sampan26

I was 4th in line at my local store of Dewsbury, with the locals who always go there each year. having a laugh before doors at 8.30am!
Then we looked just before doors and the queue was MASSIVE!
When doors were being opened, they started to push! Rude, as that usually never happens there.

It was carnage, and lots of pushing, whereas in previous years there were polite and friendly people.

Anyhow, I got everything I wanted, a friend wanted and my Mum wanted. Very happy with my lot

KittyKate

In my small local store I got some nice no7, ted baker and the sanctuary candles, went for a look in the Trafford centre and it was madness, but then again, quieter than last year. Some people with a trolley full of those unpleasant lip shaped handbags?! Assuming for resale. But generally I was unimpressed with the large store, so much more choice in the smaller one and no silly queues. I popped into Debenhams after and got far more bargains there- Yankee candles £2.40 and a Hatchimals bag for my daughter £3.

Looks like the expensive make up sets, zoella things, kylie sets and little mix palettes weren’t popular at all- loads and loads of them and most bring passed over.

fishsticks007

Same old stuff left in Rugby. Got a few bits tho!

benedictadams

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boots-70-sale-sees-shoppers-13938516


empty shelves in one store apart from the Jack Willis Body Butter Set

cagsd

benedictadams wrote: »

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boots-70-sale-sees-shoppers-13938516


empty shelves in one store apart from the Jack Willis Body Butter Set

That story is absolutely sickening I definitely made the right decision to quit my sale-going. The way the reporter refers to "bargains" throughout! Yeah cos £6 for a set that's really worth about a fiver but the price tag says £20 is such a bargain!!

Desperado99

benedictadams wrote: »

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boots-70-sale-sees-shoppers-13938516


empty shelves in one store apart from the Jack Willis Body Butter Set

It all looked rather sedate in that video........... clearly the aftermath!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Africat

benedictadams wrote: »

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boots-70-sale-sees-shoppers-13938516


empty shelves in one store apart from the Jack Willis Body Butter Set

It looks a lot calmer than it was in mine :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Africat

Does make you wonder how Boots can get stock levels so massively wrong year on year to have so much left this long after Christmas.
I guess the 70% sale is so successful though that they buy in enough to give them a post Christmas sales boost come 70% day. After all they're still prob making a decent profit on it and there would be a lot of disappointed customers if there was nothing left with the tradition that 70% day has become.