WASHINGTON — On Saturday at the Springfield Town Center in Virginia, Christmas music was still playing and people like Jeffery Darby from Northwest, D.C. were still shopping for Christmas gifts —not for himself but for others.
“I didn’t get it the day before so I’m coming to get it today,” Darby he says.
Experts say the day after Christmas could end up being a bigger shopping day than Black Friday or Cyber Monday.
According to an American Express Spending and Saving Tracker survey taken in November, more people said they expected to shop on the day after Christmas this year than on Black Friday or Cyber Monday.
According to the survey, 66 percent of the respondents said they planned to shop on Dec. 26, compared to the 45 percent who said they planned to shop Black Friday and the 47 percent who planned to shop on Cyber Monday.
Al Marks, from Clinton, Maryland was at the mall to return, shop and look for sales. He said that the day after Christmas could be big. “Yeah, because everybody will be looking for the sales,” Marks says. “Stuff will be marked down.”
Just looking around the mall there are tons of “sale” signs in storefronts with markdowns 50 to 70 percent off. Some sale signs say it is the biggest after Christmas sale or it is the lowest prices of the season.
The mild weather has put a hurting on the sale of winter clothes, which means that means the normal after-Christmas sales on things like coats could be discounted even more, experts say.
