{"id":71267,"date":"2025-12-27T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71267\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:08:08","slug":"shoppers-flock-to-boscovs-in-reading-for-post-holiday-deals-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71267\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers flock to Boscov\u2019s in Reading for post-holiday deals | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXETER TWP., Pa. &#8211; The day after Christmas brought shoppers out in full force &#8212; looking for deals.<\/p>\n<p>At Boscov&#8217;s East in Exeter Township, many came with gift cards they had just gotten as presents. They were looking for bargains on everything from clothes to small appliances.<\/p>\n<p>Others were there to get ahead on next Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Boscov&#x2019;s busy day after Christmas\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/694ebdbbba2a4.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Chad Blimline<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of customers come in for wrap or Christmas trees, getting next year&#8217;s Christmas tree a little bit early and there are obviously some returns this time of year but most customers end up buying more stuff than they return,&#8221; says Karl Hess Director of Stores at Boscov\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to get the bargains of the wrapping paper and the Christmas cards for next year. I do that, I have that,&#8221; shopper Patti Haltom says.<\/p>\n<p>A store rep says gift cards continue to grow in popularity each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXETER TWP., Pa. &#8211; The day after Christmas brought shoppers out in full force &#8212; looking for deals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[135,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-71267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-boscov","9":"tag-reading-city","10":"tag-reading-city-headlines","11":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}