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Mon 12 Dec 2009St Stephen's Day shopping a success as crowds 'know what they want'
“THEY GO straight for the bags first, and then the shoes and they know exactly what they want,” said managing director of Brown Thomas Stephen Sealey while surveying the crowds thronging the department store.
Breaking with tradition by opening on St Stephen’s Day, as Arnotts and Clerys have also done, proved “substantially better”, he said, with queues forming from 7.30am for the 50 per cent discounts in the Grafton Street store which opened at 10am.
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