Holiday shoppers flood stores
Grand Chute — As shoppers slide into the final stretch before Christmas, store fliers tout “last-minute gifts.”
For some, however, it isn’t last minute at all. With a full week left, it’s just the beginning of their buying sprees.
“I just started shopping,” said Mow Lee of Green Bay, as she stepped into the Fox River Mall on Saturday afternoon.
“We’re busy most of the time,” said her husband Phia Thao on their late start. “This is the time we have, just the weekends.”
Shoppers flooded the Fox River Mall on Saturday and Sunday in a massive surge of buying fever, but what they were choosing was largely practical.
Troy Hoehne and his sons Trevor and Carter from Menasha left Williams-Sonoma with a shopping bag of measuring cups, coffee cups and a strainer. “We went very practical for the most part,” Troy said.
Hartley Arsta of Two Rivers said he was giving gifts like car safety kits and coffee beans.
“People are buying a lot of clothes,” said Anna McGuinness at Mystic Ireland, a downtown Appleton Irish goods store with a kiosk in the mall.
