Text 1: Shoppers queue in the dark for Boxing Day bargains, by Lewis Carran

An original contemporary newspaper report.

The first shopper arrived outside the electrical store at Northgate Shopping Centre at ten past four yesterday morning, wrapped in a sleeping bag and carrying a flask of coffee. By the time the doors opened at seven, more than 300 people were queuing in the frost.

Most were after the same thing: a large television reduced from £899 to £399, of which the store had only 25. Security staff let shoppers in twenty at a time, but there was still a scramble at the doors, and two men had to be separated after an argument about who had been first.

Inside the centre, shelves in the sports shop were stripped within an hour. One teenager emerged with six pairs of trainers. ‘Three for me, three to sell online,’ he said cheerfully.

Not everyone was there for bargains. Carol and Jim Pettit, both in their seventies, have come to the Boxing Day sales every year since they were married. ‘We don’t really need anything,’ said Carol. ‘It’s just tradition. We watch the madness and then we have a bacon sandwich.’

By mid-morning the crowds had thinned. Several people who had queued for hours left empty-handed, and retailers reported that more than half of all sales had been made online before the shops even opened.

Text 2: The great sale at Messrs Sackville and Gaunt, by A Lady Correspondent

An original newspaper report written in a nineteenth-century voice; a period simulation, not an archival document.

Text 2 is from a newspaper report written in the 1880s about a sale at a large drapery shop in a northern city.

The annual clearance sale at Messrs Sackville and Gaunt, the drapers of Market Street, opened on Monday, and those who doubt that ladies are capable of a vigorous assault had better have stood with us upon the pavement at a quarter to nine.

A crowd of some hundreds had gathered before the shutters were down, many of them having come in by the early train from the outlying towns. When the doors were opened there was such a rush that a plate glass panel was cracked, and a constable was placed at the entrance for the rest of the morning to admit customers in small parties.

Within, the counters were besieged. Remnants of silk, offered at half their usual price, were seized upon by two and three hands at once, and we saw a respectable matron and a young lady pull at either end of the same length of grey poplin until an assistant parted them. Bonnets were crushed, one lady fainted, and the flannel was sold out before noon.

Meanwhile, a row of husbands stood patiently outside upon the kerb, holding parcels and umbrellas. One told us he had attended every sale for eleven years and had never yet been inside.

Using information from both texts, explain briefly how shoppers behaved at the sales.

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