Jewel and Esk College Present Christmas 2007
We're here from Jewel and Esk Valley today and today we're going
to be talking about the subject of Christmas.
Yes, we're going to be asking members of the public and people working in shops how
they feel about this time of year. Also, we're going to find out to see if Christmas
has been more orientated by money or the Christmas spirit.
So I take it you will be going to Church on Christmas eve?
Yes, of course. Yeah.
Do you think Christmas has changed alot since you were Children yourself?
Yes. For me it has yeah.
In what way? Well we're more Church goers now aren't we, we know what Christmas is about.
where as before it was more presents and eat as much as you can.
Spend as much as you can. That's the way children see it. Laughs.
When you have children, it's more about the message.
There's been so many stereotypes about Christmas, what does Christmas mean to you?
Me.. Time to get all of the family together, time to let past troubles
go aside and have a fresh New Year, lots of good, lots of drink, lots of fun, yeah! laughs
Time off work. Time off work, that's so important isn't it.
A little bit, I have a little bit about the religious side as well.
Hi, we're here with John today and he is the Assistant Manager
here of Hawkin's Bizaar here at Saint James Centre,
Well, I was wondering how much money are you expecting to make this Christmas?
Well it can fructalate, I couldn't give you an exact figure, no..
but at the moment we are above target for what we were expecting to do.
Okay so what kind of daily turnover on average? Again it can vary from day to day.
We keep hitting week on week, four thousand plus.
Okay, something like that. Is there any big selling items at the moment?
Yes, just what you see here, the diablos, there selling really well,
the big items, the pedal racers, the retro space hoppers just there are doing really well.
Okay so we've sort of seen all of these fairly modern products,
I was wondering, how sort of traditional scrooge, christmas carol, christmas image
still fit in today because does it still have any relevance?
I wouldn't say so, I think the Festive cheer is coming back a little bit more
year on year. I mean I've worked in retail for ten or twelve years now,
and slowly but surely the scrooge element is going out
a little bit I would say. Do you think that's for the better or worse?
I'd say it was for the better, from a retailer's point of view,
certainly for better, it depends on how you want to look at it.
Do you think this store will cope after the Christmas rush is over?
Well I think within Edinburgh there is great expectations in terms of the
tourist trade that we tend to get, it's very popular with the students as well,
so I still think obviously it's not going to be as busy but
we do expect still to trade well throughout that time.
And I just want to ask you, what do you want for Christmas?
What do I want for Christmas? An easy life! Laughs
That's brilliant, thanks very much John.
There's so many types of stereotypes about Christmas, what
does Christmas mean to you? It's just a time for family,
get together and have a meal and catch up with relatives and probably go somewhere
far away. And is Christmas how you imagined it to be?
Sometimes yes but shops and that make too much profit and sometimes that takes
the mood away from Christmas.
Do you think Christmas has changed alot since you were a child?
Yes, coca cola has changed, it's taken over Santa
plus he used to be green, sometimes it's changed so much I think.
It's more to do with business today.
Well it's that time of year again, would you like to tell me what you think
about Christmas? It's magic! it's brilliant, Christmas market and everything,
everybody is either on high spirits or rampaging about the place trying to kill themselves.
It's entertaining anyway. It's a time for families to come together and
people to hopefully forget about their problems and sort of help each other and
stuff, that's what I would like to think Christmas is about.
It's changed alot over the years for me but at the moment it really just means
time where families get together and enjoy each other.
Hopefully not too much about presents and money and all of that kind of thing.
Christmas tree decorations, children, that's what it's all about.
Snow if we get it! If we get it! A white Christmas, if we get it!
Do you enjoy Christmas? Yes! It's the best day of the year.
Thaks to all the crew, merry Christmas and a Happy new year.
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