The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1914. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1914. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.

Christmas shopping at Koine has sup[plied material for correspondents to Iwrite much about this year, and it is (described as having been "a colossal [spectacle." One shop despatched 300,000 parcels, another'took £IO,OOO in one day at one counter, and another served 100,000 persons daily (for weeks. The sight offered by any ■J one of London's toy centres at Christinas is beyond description. The de,vices set up for attraction, the queues of people clamouring for admission, the struggling throng of those who had won precarious loothold, may be imagined in respect of hundreds of thousands of people all [in search of toys at one time. Their .price varies with your locality of pur[chase. At Harrod's, toys at twenty or thirty pounds a-piece had a ready (sale. At the toy-fair on the kerbIstone of Ludgate Hill, was a wonderjful variety of goods at a penny each. [Post office statistics testify to dw immensity of the Christmas trade. In \ normal times the strength of the London postal force is 24,000 ; but at Christmas 10,500 additional men had to be employed.