Even though it may be just as easy to find deals online without leaving the comfort of your own home, Canadian shoppers are still hitting the malls in droves the day after Christmas.
“I’m going to buy a GoPro and some accessories for it so I guess I’m going to save up to $200. I’m excited,” said Take Yamasaki who was lined up outside Vancouver’s downtown Future Shop location at 4 a.m. Boxing Day.
Some deals are only available in store—surely a design to keep the steady flow of people streaming in to retail outlets across Canada.
“By far, biggest day of the year, biggest week of the year,” said Future Shop Communications Manager Elliott Chun, “if you tally up all the numbers you see over the week, we see about 10 times the amount of people coming into the stores and buying with us."
As many as 40 per cent of Canadians had plans to do some shopping on Boxing Day, according to an online survey conducted by shopping site ebates.ca.
Of those, 63 per cent said they were interested in buying electronics and 69 per cent said they were looking to buy clothing.
As people brave the malls, some are finding deals, others not so much.
“We’ve been shopping for four hours, three hours,” said one shopper at Vancouver’s Pacific Centre Mall.
“Every store I go into, they don’t have my size,” said his friend.
Those looking for a solution to the crowds or lack of inventory may want to head online where the deals started early and you’ll always know right away whether the item you want is in stock in the size you want.
That is, as long as you can wait for the item to arrive in the mail.
With files from CTV's Nafeesa Karim
