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Sales To Outdistance 'All Of Christmas Past ro CROSS-CANADA SURVEY 3 By PAT USSHER Canadian Press taff Writer Bay and quantity tell the ry of Canada's Christmas comlig habits in 1964. "Christmas sales this year outdistance anything| e've known in past," says} vid A. Gilbert, national gen- 'al manager of the irom Association of "No weak, spots are evident S$ year. Shoppers are showing Giscrimination as they look for' uality and luxury items." & Sales volume should set a rec- sord at most points in the coun- » @ cross-Canada survey by rhe Canadian Press showed. * The advertising manager for fa company which operates 14 @department stores in British Co- glumbia says it appears to be nthe biggest Christmas season aever"' in that. province. ® One Vancouver department store offers "breakfast with gSanta." Each mérning for 35 gcents youngsters are given abreakfast in the store while a =clown band plays and balloons ©and novelty--hats are handed) Retail of .Can- and billiard tables selling for more than $200. "(We just can't keep them in stock," one store representative said. : Spokesmen Aor two Montreal department stores predict a record year. A spokesman for a third store says it expects a better season than last year, although not a record. One. Montreal department store started a nursery this we so mothers can get their tmas »shopping done with- out interruption. A department store in Saint) John, N.B., describes Novem-) ber 4$ "a marvellous month" | and: says if sales keep up the pace, volume for the last two months of the year will be al- most 10 per cent ahead of 1963, Luxury items such as stereo equipment and recordings are in demand. Charlottetown ret ba nai say Christmas shopp slightly heavier than ae a In Halifax store spokesmen) report business good generally] but are hesitant to predict last | year's figures will be topped. | Items such. as stereo equipment are selling well. | Sout, Then Santa Claus appears) firom a chimney set up on a| ®stage and talks with the chil. | , aren. A spokesman for an Edmon-| *ton department store says 4abuyer resistance isn't very heavy this year."" Luxury items fare going well, including furs » for women. Another department | «store spokesman says pool ta- "bles are selling well. . @ general increase in sales this| * year over 1963 and attribute the * situation to "'a general buoy- f ancy in the Alberta economic) ® picture," | Retailers in Regina report | * Christmas sales up over last! * year, which set a record. "'It's Sin the process of 'Seine the best 4 Christmas we've ever had," one " department store ---- says. , By early December Christ: | 'mas shopping was 10 per cent) } ahead of sales at the same time | % in 1963, says M. M. Wocks, sec-| a retary-manager,of the Manitoba | » branch of the Retail Merchants | * Association. Quality rather than} quantity was the big factor in| i the increase. e"They're even buying more | | cunensive toys--big trucks. big} " tractors, lots of trains. They' re | ® spending up to $15 each on) E toys." * Winnipeg downtown stores are a experimenting with a park-and- {; shop program under which) * shoppers will receive stamps i good for 30 minutes' parking & with each $8 purchase. Shop- * pers riding by bus will receive « free transit trips with $3 pur- chases. | A Toronto department. store| 4 spokesman describes sales as| 3 strong and buoyant. 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