UK Christmas Eve Shopping Sales 2011, High Street 75% Discounts: 24th Dec

Personal_Finance / Shopping Dec 24, 2011 - 12:36 AM GMT

Best Financial Markets Analysis Article UK Shoppers are continuing to enjoy deep discounts as distressed retailers have brought forward their traditional boxing day sales several days early by offering discounts of as much as 75% in an attempt to boost consumer interest as so far December retail sales have failed to live upto retailer expectations. Christmas Eve is expected to see record shopping during the limited opening hours which will be further boosted by very mild weather for the time of year.

As Britain's high streets closes today for the Christmas holiday, the sales will not stop as the focus shifts to online, especially as those retailers that have so far held off on starting their sales will open their online doors ahead of their high street stores on boxing day, this most notably includes NEXT, John Lewis, Marks & Spencer and PC World / Curry's.

The following is a list of in-store and online sales (unless otherwise indicated) for at least 50% off with many retailers advertising sales of upto 75% off, and as soon

SALES Starting Today Christmas Eve - Saturday 24th Dec

John Lewis - Online only from 5pm
Harrods - Online only from 6pm
House of Fraser - Online only from 12pm
Marks and Spencer Online from 5pm
NEXT - Online only from 3pm
PC World / Curry's - Online only.

SALES ALREADY IN PROGRESS

Expect the shops on Christmas Eve to be full to bursting point as a record number of retailers have started their sales earlier than usual.

Argos
Asda - Online only
ASOS - Online only
Austin Reed
Banana Republic
BHS
Clarks
Coast
Comet
Debenhams - Online only
Early Learning Centres
French Connection
GAP
Halfords - Online only
Homebase
H&M
Laura Ashley
Matalan - Online only
Monsoon - Online only
New Look
Oasis
Sports Direct
TK Maxx
Tesco
TopShop
Toys R Us
WH Smith

SALES Starting Christmas Day - Sunday 25th Dec

SALES Starting Boxing Day - Monday 26th Dec

Amazon - Online only
Asda
Debenhams
Dorothy Perkins
Habitat
House of Fraser
Matalan
New Look
Next

SALES Starting Tuesday 27th Dec

Harrods
IKEA
John Lewis

To be Confirmed

Zara

SALES Tips

Compare prices on your internet smartphone before buying to make sure that you actually are getting a bargain.
The biggest reductions come towards the end of the sales season, i.e. Christmas stock can go from 33% off to 50% off to 70% off to 80% off over the week after Christmas.
Use a cash back credit card such as Capital One Circle to earn cash back.
Make a list of items that you really need to prevent buying of junk.
Look for discount vouchers in newspapers.
Set yourself a budget and don't go over it.
Don't get into debt, there is no point saving 25% in the sales then paying 25% and beyond interest on purchases during 2012!

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Comments

toby 24 Dec 11, 05:24	Paper Gold and Physical Gold divergence Hi Nadeem, Thanks for your article as always, I just wanted to get a quick take from you on whether or not you have noticed that a divergence between paper gold and physical gold price is happening, due to all the fraud at comex, mfglobal and sovereigns claiming physical gold back etc, and whether you see this as potentially something that could end up having ramifications worldwide. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Toby
Nadeem_Walayat 24 Dec 11, 08:33	Gold divergence Hi Toby I don't see any abnormal divergence between bullion and nearest futures. The divergence between GLD ETF and Gold bullion is within the normal volatility range of the past 5 years, they remain highly correlated, the same goes for Silver and SLV. Where is this divergence ? Best for the hols. NW
Diogo 24 Dec 11, 19:17	Zara Sales Date Good evening, I work at Zara in UK. Sales starting 26th. Cheers
Toby 25 Dec 11, 12:53	gold divergence Hi Nadeem, The divergence is happening with the hands on physical price of bullion and not what used to be deemed as physical, the futures contracts which is still in tow as you say. After MFglobal and rehypothecation stories dealers, investors & countries with apparent stored gold are realising to the fact the comex is fraudulent. They all want hands on physical not just fraudulent numbers for stored bars, In the last 2 months comex official figures show 69 tonnes standing, but no gold as entered the dealer whatsoever. would you agree that rehypothecation fraud of commodities could take down banks and countries with it as people, institutes, countries scramble for what they thought was their physical gold but its vanished just like mfglobal. the comex should have defaulted by now and are staying a float by rehypothecation Hope you had a good Christmas day. All the best
Nadeem_Walayat 25 Dec 11, 15:06	Gold Bullion Hi Toby Gold bullions at bullion vault is still trading at $1605. If what you say was happening it would be a lot higher. I think the rehypo stories have made a difference to the gold price but only for maybe $2, or $3, nothing significant. there are so many other factors involved such as competing safe-havens that one story or factor cannot wag the gold dog. All the Best for the hols. NW
Toby 28 Dec 11, 03:33	Gold Bullion Bullion vault use allocated bars stored in bank vaults. Would you trust the banks? The bars will be allocated all over the place. (same as mfglobal customers gold)
Nadeem_Walayat 28 Dec 11, 08:55	Gold and collapse This is my argument, that gold during economic collapse is pretty much useless regardless of where it is. wealth is far better off in tins of food under collapse circumstances Best NW

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