{"id":370575,"date":"2025-12-26T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370575\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:01:07","slug":"go-soon-to-take-advantage-of-deals-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370575\/","title":{"rendered":"Go soon to take advantage of deals, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boxing Day, once the biggest day on the Canadian retail calendar, is still important for sellers, but they\u2019ve had to adapt to shoppers who are less impulsive and more intentional than they used to be, experts say.<\/p>\n

This shift has coincided with the rise in online shopping, which has allowed consumers to research products and search for the best deals before going out to make physical purchases.<\/p>\n

And with more and more shoppers heading straight for the most popular products, a retail analyst says it\u2019s best to go early to take advantage of Boxing Week deals before stores run out.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou probably want to go out today if you\u2019re going to go out, just because the inventory might be depleted,\u201d Bruce Winder told CTV News Channel on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI jumped on the Amazon and Walmart and Canadian Tire websites this morning, and they all have some pretty good deals \u2026 if you kind of wait, you might miss out on the inventory, it might be sold out. So, if you\u2019ll see something you like, it\u2019s best to buy it as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winder said that across Canada, he expects Boxing Day to be \u201cpretty brisk\u201d this year, as shoppers continue to flock to deals, with many having saved some of their planned holiday shopping for products with post-Christmas discounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re probably not buying as much at regular price,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re saving up that money and really going after the deals … so that\u2019s something that I think you\u2019ll see play well into Boxing Day today.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Vividata, an organization that collects and analyzes consumer behaviour in Canada<\/a>, Boxing Week is set to see a similar rate of participation this year compared to 2024, with 8.6 million Canadians expected to make purchases.<\/p>\n

But unlike November\u2019s Black Friday, typically the biggest shopping day of the year in Canada and the U.S., Boxing Day tends to attract shoppers who have already made up their minds about what they want to buy, according to Vividata\u2019s president and CEO.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of our respondents who are heavy participants in Boxing Day shopping, they\u2019ve done their research,\u201d Pat Pellegrini told CTV News Channel on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey like social media that has reviews, they know exactly what they\u2019re looking for. I think it\u2019s a really relevant holiday, and it probably will go on for the week, and people will be looking for those precise items; it\u2019s less impulse and more purposeful shopping.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vividata\u2019s research also found that over the course of the entire holiday shopping season, the vast majority of Canadians made at least some of their purchases at brick-and-mortar stores, even as online shopping continues to gain more of a foothold.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who said they would participate in Boxing Day shopping \u2026 in person is very high,\u201d said Pellegrini.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only did Boxing Day participants say they were more online than ever the last year, but they also say they visited more malls, so you\u2019ve got quite a mix. I think it will be a little bit heavy towards in-person, but a lot more online than you\u2019d normally see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing Day, once the biggest day on the Canadian retail calendar, is still important for sellers, but they\u2019ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[712,703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-370575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}