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when is the British heaviest shopping day be for x-mas

in the USA it is always

Usually it is the last saturday before xmas, but the busiest online shopping will come on the first monday of december.

This year most people here will be giving the busiest days a miss. I reckon most have already been picking up bargains as they see them. But the shops will panic and bring in the early sales which are usually poor quality goods that have been reduced by 70% from their original so called selling price. Not that anybody in their right mind would have paid that.

Hanging on waiting for your last word, Plainleaf

What day? ???

i hit send before finishing the sentence

the  heaviest shopping day in USA is the Friday after 4 th Thursday of November (black Friday the day after Thanksgiving)

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, equates here to what used to be the beginning of the Christmas Sales - Boxing Day (26th December to you). This used to be the day when queues for heavily discounted goods could start the day before with some people camping out in front of stores all night (Harrods was the most famous example), just as you can see this now in the US the evening before B.Friday.

Now, as ACE has written, the Sales can start well before Christmas, food shopping can be done on-line and Amazin' Amazon is a year-round source of discounted bargains - and all without leaving home 8)

On line for me, :)

If my son (18) doesn't give me his Christmas wish list soon he'll be getting a Justin Bieber CD and T-shirt!!!! I'll be shopping on Amazon but having said that he is still waiting for one of his Birthday (early Oct) presents sent by his father via Amazon. He does like obscure Finnish/german metalfolkrock music...which is why I need the list urgently!!!

Kea, that non-arrival prezzie news is awful! :'( I'm presuming his Dad had an order no.& tracking, so......what happened, do you know?

"obsucure folk/metal rock music" sounds good! any links?

The retailers are blaming the warm weather, last year they were blaming the cold weather ???

Why not blame themselves for stocking the whole shop with winter goods at the end of August. I  would hedge my bets and keep some summer stock on the shop floor. Or have real reductions not 70% of an over inflated price that was supposed to be on the goods in some shop in the outer Hebrides. I know they have overheads but when some of them post their profits for the year, some of them border on the obscene. Cut your excessive profit margins and we might be tempted.

A lot of people out of work this year will affect the big spend this xmas. I went shopping in Coventry this time last year and the goods were a lot cheaper than a few miles up the road in Warwick. Even Warwick will have to trim their prices this year as a lot more of the so called middle class are tightening their belts.

The poor old minimum wage earners will be able to struggle through, they know how to spot the bargains.

Quote from: pumpkinlover on November 24, 2011, 13:10:31
"obsucure folk/metal rock music" sounds good! any links?

Yeh. come on give us the info.

Past Times had 50% off everything yesteday.Stocked up on lots of nice pressies.

Even had free mulled wine and mince pies in there,they know how to open you puse LOL