December 26th, day after Christmas in Aust is almost always reserved for recuperating from the large lunch and dinner from the day before, watching the Boxing Day test cricket and... stampeding for the best bargains in the Boxing Day sales!
The Boxing Day sales is reputed to be the largest sale in the departmental stores' calendar, other than the bi-annual stock take sales. People queue up for the department stores to open their doors from the night before and then go into a shopping frenzy once the doors are opened. It attracts the same kind of crowd that killed a Wal-Mart employee in the US not too long ago. It is expected that this year's Boxing Day sale will rake in $26 million in Victoria itself, and $6.3 billion whole country over the next two weeks.
How about the bargains? I've heard, not seen (because there are limited stock and I'm never one of the first 100 to be in the store) about television sets going half price, $15 tops etc. This year, attracted by the craze of it all, Gaz and I went to our nearest departmental store to partake in this annual tradition. We saw a long line of people in front of Swarowski, the crystal shop. We had specific items we wanted to purchase, and crystals weren't one of them. We walked from shop to shop, department to department, and get this... two hours of walking around and all we got was a single pillow (half price).
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