If you are looking to make post-Christmas shopping plans, the biggest sales may not be the day after. Rather, look for New Year’s Day, experts suggested. The”trend began about five years ago, and gift cards are”to blame for the switch. It seems people shop like mad with the cards before New Year’s Day, thinking they are spending someone else’s money, so stores keep the more expensive items on the shelves.
Those post-Christmas returns also”begin to flood into the stores, and those people usually just turn around and buy something else, giving the stores no incentive to offer deep discounts. ” Click here to comment on this story.