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Originally Posted by mobertol
Was watching Sky news earlier and they were interviewing people at the sales and they all seemed to be intent on buying non/essential luxury goods like the latest designer handbag or model of I/phone which really scuppers the idea of people feeling austerity. I find there is something faintly distasteful in the idea of people trampling all over each other to get the lastest "bargains" in a frenzy of spending and I suspect that as has been said many purchases will not have been saved for but will be paid on the never/never.
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If you look at a lot of the pictures of the Boxing day sales frenzy a lot of the folks at the front of the queue appear to be Chinese and various other nationalities
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