VIC:Bargain hunters rush for sale items

AAP General News (Australia)
12-26-2010
VIC:Bargain hunters rush for sale items

Mad shoppers have queued in their hundreds outside Melbourne department stores ready
to pounce on the perfect Boxing Day bargain.

David Jones in Melbourne's Bourke Street opened at five this morning with more than
one thousand people waiting at the doors eager to snap up a good buy.

A store spokeswoman says Australian designer fashion has been the most popular choice
for shoppers today .. noticing a rise in the number of Gen-Y bargain hunters.

MARGY OSMOND from the Australian National Retailers Association says cashed-up Gen
Y-ers are finally loosening the purse strings after a year of saving.

Shoppers nationally are expected to splurge on six billion dollars worth of goods this
week .. with David Jones estimating over five thousand plasma TVs .. one million business
shirts and more than 100 thousand pairs of women's shoes to be snapped up in the annual
spending frenzy.

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KEYWORD: SALES (MELBOURNE)

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