When are the best times to buy toys?
During a sale of course! And when are the sales? In the US, a major sale day called Black Friday is coming soon. It falls on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November) each year. On Black Friday, some US retail stores open their doors as early as midnight, and close only on midnight the following Saturday to accommodate the massive crowds that come!
In Singapore, the major sales we have are the Great Singapore Sale (around June to mid-July each year), and the year end Christmas and post Christmas sales. In between there are the shorter period ad-hoc sales by the various departmental stores.
Here in Singapore, there are shopping malls and departmental stores that occasionally decide to open till around midnight during certain festive periods, but this practice of extended shopping hours is not fixed each year. I’d rather have more short period sales spread out throughout the year. Many collectible toys are released and sold in the departmental stores at different times of the year.
We may not have Black Friday here in Singapore, but we still have Christmas turning round the corner. Our main shopping belt at Orchard Road is already lighted up with Christmas decorations. They started earlier this year to dress up the street for the APEC meeting taking place in the coming week. Locally, shoppers to Orchard Road get to immense themselves in the Christmas mood for a longer period!
If you have plans to buy some toys, whether for yourself or as gifts, now you can start looking out for the Christmas sale advertisements in the newspapers everyday. The major retailers have definitely prepared some great offers for shoppers to enjoy, incuding on toys! So start saving up to splurge during the year end sales, after which in Singapore, will be followed by the New Year and Chinese New sales early next year!
Happy toy shopping in the coming weeks and months!
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it is always nice to wait for sales, but it is also risky. sometimes items disappear from the stores and never gets re-stocked.
We don’t have any big sales except for Xmas. But we have sales every week at Toysrus, although it is not always on the “good” stuff and not always good sales. Sometimes their sale prices are same as Walmart regular price LOL. But it’s nice to look forward to every week to see what’s on sale.
Hi Bany,
That’s a risk to take for buying anything at any sales
Hi Jcee,
I guess your local TRU aims to attract customers to come every week to check out what’s new. Even if the customers didn’t buy any sale items, hopefully they would notice the new stocks and other non-sale items, and buy something from there