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the one thing working in retail over the Christmas Season has taught me is that we should never.... EVER... underestimate the tight fisted Cheapness that is the general public. I've seen people lining up outside a record store on Christmas Day, waiting in line for 18 hours in the Sub-Zero Toronto Winter for a Boxing day sale.
I've seen people camping out over night for a Boxing Day Sale and litterally getting into fist fights over $5 T-shirts.
Sales can make some people spring a leak.
One last story... the last boxing day sale I will ever work saw me arrive at the store at 4 AM so I could mark down prices for our sale, only to have people come up with merchandise already marked down to cost yell at me for not taking off an extra 50% at the register, throw the product in my face, call me cheap and yell they'd never shop at my store again. Hearing about old ladies trampled is horrible, but I'd bet that if it wasn't them who'd fallen down, they'd be trampling the little old ladies who did.
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