Christmas Shopping

By Carolina Sánchez Navalón, 2C

This year, the economic crisis has frozen the Christmas shopping.

Everyone will pay more or less 728 € for presents this year—86 € less than last year, and that was also less than the previous year.

According to an ESADE study, the cost lifts to 800 Euros in these dates and the study notes an 18% decrease in spending from 2008. Most of the people that go to the shopping centres are housewives who want to buy things for their children.

This year’s favorite gifts for girls are, Dolls, table games, games for making jewellery, and for boys things like Bakugan, cars, Pokemon, etc. As in these examples we can affirm that, although we are in the 21st Century, games continue to be gender specific. Many parents are buying their presents on the Web. New this year is a shop, which sells every thing you want, from clothes to games, in Seville called MGI that has decided to sell their products for only 10 €. This is due to the fact of the economic crisis that has eliminated the intermediaries and they sell directly to the public, and for that reason they are cheaper. There are also NGOs and associations that every year give presents to children whose families don’t have money to buy presents.

Although there are many children who still don’t have Christmas presents, and others still not using many presents. However, this Christmas is sure to be a merry one for shops in Spain.