Shoppers ready for huge scale sales
(23 December 2005)

Festive high street shoppers have never had it so good, as pre-Christmas sales take on an increasingly drastic appearance.

With high-street takings having been down in the run-up to the festive season in light of the nation's increased predilection for online shopping, signs offering discounts of 80 per cent in fashion outlets, and around 50 per cent in some furnishing and kitchen stores, are becoming almost commonplace.

Some major central London stores have been forced to begin their sales a week, or at least a fortnight, early – and this is bound to herald one of the most hectic and competitive post-Christmas sales periods ever seen.

All of this is good news for the consumer – but do the further price cuts which will inevitably follow over the next week coincide nicely with your payday?

Given the number of imminent public holidays, they may well not do; therefore some extra short-term cash, of up to £1000, from a payday loan could come in handy to make sure that you don't miss out on one of the most frantic, but invariably rewarding, shopping periods of the year. It may be almost Christmas, but it's not too late.

A shop owner outlined the likely pattern of things when telling the Evening Standard: "The problem is that if one of us goes on sale, the others feel they have to follow or they will lose out."

Now's the time to make sure you have the cash in hand to profit – with tonnes of unsold stock waiting to be snapped up.



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