In Britain's busiest Boxing Day, all major department stores put down their posture

According to the Daily Mail of the UK, total sales of Boxing Day Boxing a record 3 billion pounds this year. The so-called Boxing Day is the December 26 of each year, the day after Christmas or the first Sunday after Christmas.

The busiest Boxing Day

On Boxing Day, Britain's major department stores put down their bodies, no matter how arrogant they are on weekdays.

The old British department stores, such as Harrods department Store (Harrods), Selfridges department Store (selfridgies), Liberty Department store, all have a bigger "discount" (SALE) sign in the window. A shopping spree that wants to sweep the bargain is greeted by the annual discount shopping day.

Harrods's staff even sent tea-water and blankets to customers waiting outside the door on a cold winter night. The goods of more than 600 retail outlets in Westfield, the largest shopping centre in London, are sold at half price. Fashion brand Next 6 o'clock in the morning open the door, a branch of Oxford Street, 600 people lined up in the morning to open the door. Selfridges Birmingham 2 o'clock in the morning someone started to line up, and about 2000 people waited in the morning when they opened the door. Shffield Shopping Mall (Meadowhall) has 200,000 people in and out all day, the central general manager said, this is the busiest Boxing Day ever.

The head of London's new Western Company, which represents more than 600 shops, said that 30% of shoppers in west London were from overseas, mostly luxury enthusiasts from China, the Middle East and North Africa. They are in major department stores to buy a large number of brand bags, jewelry and other high-end luxury goods.

The number of online shoppers was over 30% last year.

According to the data company Experian and the online retail association IMRG data, the UK's net purchases were as high as £ 636 million on Christmas Day 2014, and it was predicted that the online purchases of 26th Boxing Day could be as high as more than 748 million pounds, with sales of around 519,000 pounds per minute. They also forecast the number of online shop visitors 167 million, more than 2013 years 29%.

"There has been a breakthrough in online shopping this year, especially in November, when the black Friday total was over 810 million pounds," he said. Traditionally, Boxing Day is Britain's biggest sales day, but this year's turnover is likely to be lost to black Friday. "Experian, the head of the data company, said to the media.

In the 2014, Britain's economic recovery has been encouraging and "a solo show" in EU countries. According to PwC's latest report, not only is the UK's domestic consumption, manufacturing, financial services and other steady growth, indicating that the UK economic recovery has "a foothold", is expected to achieve GDP growth of 3% this year.