Boxing Day Sales

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Boxing Day sales typically are shopping extravaganzas that occur on the day after Christmas, Boxing Day, but sometimes run for a week.
Boxing Day sales generally occur in Australia, Canada and parts of the United Kingdom.
The 2009 Boxing Day sales in the United Kingdom, saw approximately 12 million people visit the shops.
Popular shops that support the Boxing Day sales generally open as early as 5 am.
Boxing Day sales include great bargain priced items and the shops often strategically lower there prices to bring in customers.

Retailers that support Boxing Day sales generally have a limited stock of items, particularly those with the greatest discounts, and they often try to sell those items that did not sell by Christmas.
Shops that support Boxing Day sales are often full of people, shoulder-to-shoulder, due to heavily discounted items, and they sometimes limit the customers in the shop at any one time.
Boxing Day sales are generally reviewed in news reports, focusing on the crowds, queues, and times of arriving.
Boxing Day sales became popular in the 1980s, and were most likely established to encourage consumers to return to the shops after Christmas.
In Australia, it was expected that $1.9 billion (AUD) were to be spent in the 2013 Boxing Day sales, with a 1/3 spent in the state of Victoria.