/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Boxing%20Day/rss en /channels/news/boxing-day-losing-its-appeal-canadian-shoppers-257617 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>If you’re planning to skip the Boxing Day sales this year, you’re not alone. Once considered the best day of the year for deals, Dec. 26 is increasingly losing its appeal for Canadian shoppers. </p> <p>“For the longest time, Boxing Day was considered to be the day — and realistically the week — to enjoy lower prices,” <strong>Robert Soroka</strong>, a marketing professor at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, tells Yahoo Canada News. “It was really a very exciting time because it was considered to be that one day of the year where you could essentially walk off like a bandit."</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">7 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:13:03 +0000 webfull 114947 at /channels