Crazy Shoppers!

We received a Big W Toy Sale Catalouge in the mail the other week that had 130 pages of toys in it! We have a friend who works there and we'd planned to go in to the store this morning to layby some things right up until December for Ezekiel's birthday and Christmas. Our friend told us that the store actually opened at 12:01am and suggested that we get in there at that time to make sure we got what we wanted. She did mention that a couple of years ago the store was open for 24 hours and it didnt really work all that well because there wasnt many people around.

Jeremy ventured out last night with a small list of things to put on layby. I just realised that you dont have layby in Canada. It's where you just put things on hold for a few months and pay them off.

Anyways, Jeremy pulled up to a FULL car park and was met with a big crowd out the front of the store at midnight. When the store opened everyone run for the toy section and Jeremy got what he wanted and realised the layby line was becoming long in a very short amount of time. He ended up getting in line about 20 metres from the layby counter and it took him an hour to get to the counter!!

He got home at 1:30am this morning and as he was walking out he saw the layby line which had almost made a whole loop of the store it was that long, and the store is quiet big! So many people waiting to place things on layby.

Our friend sent me a text message with a 4am update saying that the store was still full of hundreds of shoppers and that the layby line was still as long as it was when Jeremy was there and that the store had taken over $80,000 worth of sales within 4 hours!

Isn't that just crazy!

We're all set now & dont have to think about birthday or Christmas presents!