Retailers hope for the best
Saturday 27th November 2010, 2:58PM GMT.
A group out shopping on Thursday night Picture: JON GUEGAN (01102233)
RETAILERS are hoping that trading over the festive period will be consistent with last year, following the first evening of late-night Christmas shopping this week.
With the big day less than a month away Islanders made the most of St Helier’s shops being open until 9 pm on Thursday, in the first of a packed series of events planned over the next few weeks.
It is hoped the events – which includes the start of Sunday shopping this weekend – will help boost sales for local businesses, which have had a tough year.
Ray Shead, president of Jersey’s Chamber of Commerce, said it was too early to tell how trading would pan out but that local traders were always optimistic.
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I dare say those who don’t have computers will be flocking to town to get some “bargains”.
Me I’ll stay home where it’s warm, the parking is free and the internet shopping is half price or less and delivers to my door.
I guess if I wanted to get a feel for the town shopping experience I could set fire to half of my money.
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Mulvie – you sound very sad. Yes of course things are cheaper on line. Expecting a small local shop to match the prices of a huge faceless multi-national who can buy goods at knockdown prices, force down wages of suppliers and pay their own small army of sweatshop workers minimum wages with minimum conditions to package your goods is naive. Let’s face it this attitude of buy the cheapest is why we have slave labour in India and China and mass unemployment in Europe.
You really need to get out and about – Consumerism is a false god promulgated by the rich industrialist to get the masses to part with their monies – the rich get richer and the poor poorer. There is a lot more to life than mere possessions. Shopping is as much about interacting with other people and being part of society. You may get a lot less for your money but by not consuming so much you are helping to save the planet.
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The Govt.especially A.Maclean have abandoned local retailers..if we get more adverse weather and trading days.I fear some well known ones will not survive this winter…the answers can be found in taxing local buisness less…especially small ones give them a 12 month tax and social sec.amnesty to consolidate and lower taxes in general to kick start trade…..Ah Truthseeker…there is a fly in the ointment of your plan…Sorry, forgot out of control spending…they simply and only know Tax and spend……slow lingering demise…..Nutters.
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Sanity, good for you. C’mon Mulvie lighten up a bit – its CHRISTMAS and has been since September! Hee he!
No Sanity is right dude and whilst I agree with you Mulvie on some aspects its not all bad, some but not all.
I’ll be back!
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Sanity – a misnomer surely, I don’t recall saying or implying that I worshipped consumerism. The point I was making was simply that those goods I intended to purchase would be bought at less than half the price charged locally. Of course I hadn’t realised the reason for the enormous disparity in cost was due to our local retailers sourcing from environmentally sustainable sources. From manufacturers worlds away from those supplying Amazon and the like. Kind hearted employers whose workforce chose ocassionally to do some graft between leisurely sessions spent on the couch being hand fed grapes.
As for “there is a lot more to life than mere possessions” I couldn’t agree more, but since I enjoy partaking in the joy that is Christmas and since said pleasure inevitably involves parting with cash, I’d rather part with less of it and spend what remains on my loved ones. If there’s any left I’ll pop into town and give it gratis to those big hearted retailers to pass on to their bespoke suppliers.
And here’s me being a dimwit thinking local retailers were just greedy, self serving, money grabbing live in the past despots, thanks for the wake up.
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“you are helping to save the planet” – if Jersey is anything to go by, why bother it’s in sxxt order !!!
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where are all the shoppers going to park now that the gas place car park is closed.
another great decision by a civil servant.
lets close it just before xmas????
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I’ve got a mate in the UK with a Costco card, he just sends me the stuff (food) in the post and I give him a decent return for his troubles, its still much much cheaper. I dont understand the way people put up with this treatment here!!
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@Scouser
Do you ever eat any fresh meat or vegetables?
More people should take up fishing and foraging. It’s a bit of fun too! Plus, there’s fields FULL of veg just lying about (best to go at night though). Might as well steal it, the farmers have been stealing form us for years!
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Hope! – the refuge of a scoundrel.
Lisa Simpson circa 2006
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