A major Calgary mall enjoys a record Boxing Day crowd
Posted Dec 27, 2010 8:47 am.
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From an average of 500 people lining up outside Best Buy outlets by 6am, Sunday ,to a record crowd at Chinook Centre on the city’s southside, Boxing Day shoppers were out in droves.
A spokesperson for Best Buy tells the Calgary Sun, the figure of 500 early morning, bargain shoppers awaiting the store’s opening was consistent throughout the country.
At Chinook Centre, spokesperson Peggy Lim attributed the record crowd to gift cards and the mall’s recent expansion.
Lim tells the Calgary Herald that gift cards were an extremely popular item, this year, and recipients were eager to use them.
The addition of 60 new retailers this year also helped boost traffic.
Lim can’t recall Chinook having more than 80-thousand visitors in the past.
North of the city at Cross Iron Mills, a spokesperson says they were on target for 60-thousand visitors.
But one thing seemed consistent at pretty well every mall in Calgary, traffic chaos.
