Hundreds queue in Telford for 6am sale
Monday 26th December 2011, 10:59AM GMT.
Huge queues of bargain hunters formed outside Next in Telford Shopping Centre before 6am today. Their arrival signalled the beginning of the annual Boxing Day sales.
Hundreds of shoppers arrived before the doors to the ever-popular Next sale opened at 6am.
Millions of people are expected to hit Britain’s high streets today.
Argos, John Lewis and Marks & Spencer were among stores which started their sales online as early as Christmas Eve and many people are predicted to spend Boxing Day shopping on the internet.
Jayne Mackey, part-time store manager at Next in Telford Shopping Centre, said: “We had about 245 people in our queue this morning. We are absolutely rammed. We had to stop them coming into the store at 6.10am and we have been filtering people in. In our first half-an-hour we took about £4,000.”
Tracy Hadley, marketing and events manager at the shopping centre said: “We envisage the sales to be extremely busy.”
Russell Hall, operations manager for the Darwin, Pride Hill and Riverside Shopping Centres in Shrewsbury, said: “Last year on Boxing Day we attracted over 15,000 shoppers to the Darwin and Pride Hill Centres and indications this year are that that figure could be exceeded.
“A number of stores have opened and there are plenty of bargains to be had.”
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Tell you what for the new year try and knock this silly practice on the head. They sell stock which are poor sellers,going out of fashion or basically the rubbish, add to that it is” next” chav country
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Yup,’Next’ is the word. Buy it then chuck it away and do it again. I only good thing I have found there in recent times has been a fleece with a paw print design for my dog’s basket.
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The usual sound AF speculative argument and opinion. How about stopping the “silly practice” of illegal fox hunting for the New Year?
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Must be some good bargains my daughter in the red coat came all the way from Malta for this day.
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Airfare,excess baggage charges and associated travel costs of a 4000 mile round trip would not make sale clothes from Next a bargain even were they free.
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