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QUESTION: Do you plan to do most of your Christmas shopping online or in the store?
Talk about it….
In the store. I want to see and touch what I’m buying, and if relevant, smell it.
Online shopping is one of the reasons people have been losing their jobs.
Stores have been cutting back, or closing and going out of business. It also
requires absolutely no exercise, which is one of the reasons we are living in
a fat society. People are getting too darn lazy. Get out and walk. Park your
car on the opposite side of the lot and walk a few extra steps, your belly will
thank you for it, as well as your heart.
When I Christmas shop, half the fun is looking and picking out an item that
I think the person would like and appreciate. I hate shopping, but Christmas
is different, I enjoy giving, and the delightful expression on their face when
they open their present is priceless. I’m shopping for somebody besides myself,
and that’s what makes it an enjoyable experience.
Dawg ~
Totally Agree with hands on shopping.
Feel the quality, read the label, and where it’s made.
Also, if it’s for me, the fit can be so hard from item to item.
Plus, going to boutiques for those one-of-a-kind handmade items for someone.
Shopping already finished online. Laziness has nothing to do with it. I’m not a shopper in the coloquial sense of driving around to stores and browsing the goods. I have in mind what I want to purchase and search for the items and procure the items without the need to mingle among the masses, witness a jewelry store smash and grab, or have my vehicle broken into.
Both! Sometimes online works to find that special item that you’d have to run to 10 stores to hopefully find.
But there is a certain amount of pleasure and holiday feel you get by going into the stores themselves!
I like shopping in person in a brick and mortar – if – BIFG IF – they have inventory on hand, and adequate parking…. given both are usually not the case – I do more online shopping. Having a sales clerk tel me they can order it when they advertise a product but don’t have it in inventory, I tell them I’ll order it myself and have it delivered to me at home.
Used to prefer at the store, looking at all the Christmas decorations. Each store was different, each mall had their own central Santa display. Then, it seemed everything became harmonized, all looking the same. People have become more crass and rude making shopping rather unpleasant. The trend to avoid saying “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Hannukah” has also spread throughout, to the less “offensive” phrase of “Happy Holidays.” Just makes it seem more like a day of mall walking. Now, I haven’t really been in many years, and to be honest, my wife does the online shopping (so that, to me, makes online shopping far superior-I don’t have to do it- that’s the Christmas spirit, isn’t it?). I may go around to some of the smaller shops to throw minor business at them, if they look like they are trying to attract Christmas shoppers, and not Happy Holiday shoppers.
I realize this is a long rant, and I haven’t even started with an evening glass of port. I hope all who read this had a pleasant and Happy Thanksgiving. All my friends I have only read, never met.
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Probably 50/50… some items arent available locally.
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Ive been buying gifty things at bargain prices all year long.
To me Christmas has just another over blown commercial sales season that starts as soon as the Halloween sales season (also now over blown) finishes. I go to stores to get things and look at what I’m buying as well as what is new (and often un-advertised yet). Walmart is a mile away and have only had two things delivered because they didn’t have it in store. Amazon had to take the place of Fry’s which might have been a mile way but Walmart got the building which previously was Costco.
Mostly in the store, because my workplace have just about everything I need and want in terms of clothing, jewelry, handbags etc. However, sometimes it is not available in the store so I buy it from their website, still get my employee discount. I buy a few things from Amazon, mostly books, a few other things, but not clothing or shoes etc.
Due to mobility issues online buying has become necessary.
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Buying online from big box Orange hardware company and it’s delivered quick.
Website is a bit clunky but it’s manageable.
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For specialized project parts, have no choice but to buy online.