Festive shoppers give centre welcome boost

By The Newsroom
Published 30th Dec 2016, 15:09 BST
Updated 9th Jan 2017, 12:40 BST
Most shops at Priory Meadow saw an increase in sales on last year. Photo by Tony Coombes.Most shops at Priory Meadow saw an increase in sales on last year. Photo by Tony Coombes.
Most shops at Priory Meadow saw an increase in sales on last year. Photo by Tony Coombes.

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Romantic shoppers have set their eyes and hearts on the brightest of gems in the Christmas sales rush.

There’s definitely been festive love in the air, according to staff at H Samuel jewellers in the town’s Priory Meadow Shopping Centre.

Store manager Sophie Clarke said: “There seems to have been a mini boom in people getting engaged in Hastings, which is a really fantastic way to round off the year. It’s been lovely for us staff to see so many couples come in choosing rings.”

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She added: “Though our final figures are not in yet, it definitely feels like they’re up on last year. We’ve had a really good run up to Christmas, helped enormously by all those engagements.”

Over at the Priory Shopping Centre’s Bonmarché fashion store there were plenty of smiles on the shop floor too as manager Karen Thompson reported ‘a shop full of people’ on the day after Boxing Day.

She said: “With December 27 also being a bank holiday this year, and the good weather we’ve had, people have had the chance to get out more and come and investigate the bargains we’ve got. I haven’t had chance to tot up our overall sales figures yet as I’ve been rushed off my feet, but that’s a good thing. It is definitely much busier than I thought it would be.”

Charlene Hutchinson, manager at The Perfume Shop, revealed a nine per cent rise in sales for Boxing Day 2016, compared to last year.

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