Talk:Boxing Week

When did people start talking about Boxing Week? I remember when stores used to have "Boxing Day sales", and now it seems they all have "Boxing Week sales". I was talking to my friends about how weird it is, and we all feel like we only started hearing about "Boxing Week" in the past few years, but now it's everywhere. (We live in Canada, by the way.) I found myself saying it the other day. My office is closed for the three working days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, so I told someone that my office is closed for Boxing Week. 99.227.60.214 (talk) 15:00, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Annoying nonsense
"Boxing Week" is nothing but a pathetic new marketing ploy and has nothing to do with tradition except to rape and obscure it for commercial purposes. I say boycott any place advertising it until it goes away. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.8.55 (talk) 15:34, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Never heard of it. It's total nonsense. This article should be deleted. It brings Wikipedia into disrepute. 141.6.11.13 (talk) 14:11, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

I looked this up after just receiving an email from Microsoft (December 2018) which used the term. I had never heard of it before. I live in London, UK. It's not a traditional term in the UK. A search on Google using the term shows Canadian sites only for the first 20 results as at Dec 2018. So presume article was started by a Canadian that assumed its an import from the UK?