{"id":342805,"date":"2025-12-30T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342805\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:48:08","slug":"big-surge-in-post-christmas-shoppers-going-out-to-enjoy-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342805\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big surge&#8217; in post-Christmas shoppers going out to enjoy themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So what do shoppers make of it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judy Norris, from Toronto in Canada, was visiting family in Bristol and said Cabot Circus &#8220;was more crowded on the weekend, but [on Monday it was] lovely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve bought something at 50% off, so we think we&#8217;ve done well,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dawn Price, from Neath in south Wales, said: &#8220;It was quite busy, we went to return some things and we had a little browse around, and it&#8217;s nice to see it a little bit quieter today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But some questioned whether there really are any bargains to be had. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite signs tempting shoppers in with 50% off, even 70% off, many have already had their discounts before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think throughout the whole year, you can get better deals,&#8221; said Emma Coombs, visiting Bristol from Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to lie, I did a lot of my presents at the beginning of the week before Christmas because they were cheaper than the sales now,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So what do shoppers make of it? Judy Norris, from Toronto in Canada, was visiting family in Bristol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-342805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}