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Welcome to a Spain. Poco a poco. Hola.
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Hola Tanya. Today we're talking about
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something very exciting.
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Oh yes, we love lasas which means
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which means everybody sales and
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discounts. It means sales. It's all the
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wonderful discounted products and we
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love it.
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It is a shopping. at the consumer's
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dream right now in in Spain.
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I do love a good deal.
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I do too.
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And what was excit what what is very
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interesting which I did not realize
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until we moved here and we moved here in
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July and a couple years ago and it was
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these red Rabbeas signs everywhere and
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I'm like oh it's a sale. And then a
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friend of mine who was from Spain had
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told me he's like oh you're there during
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rape house it's a big thing. And I
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didn't really know that it was such a
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big thing but it is.
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Twice a year they have these big sales a
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right after Christmas after three kings
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day and then in in July. So it's like
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January into February, July into August.
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But these are government sanctioned sale
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periods.
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Yes. And it and it's everything
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and it's a and it can be everything. And
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I think these are particularly exciting
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for places like Alcortlair and stuff
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where they really I mean a lot of the
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shops I mean that's somewhere where
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stuff can be more expensive and
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sometimes you can just get amazing
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things in some of the more expensive
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shops and we love that. So
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we we do not
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and and I mean I think people save up
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for the year thinking well this TV is
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going to go out. Well, they're not going
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to go out and get a if they can hold
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out, they'll wait till July to get the
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TV versus March, right? You know, these
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things are coming. So, absolutely people
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plan out.
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Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying people
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should plan on when they move based
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around the Rob House, but maybe you
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should plan on moving based around the
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house because if you're going to have to
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buy a lot of stuff, hey, why not, right?
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Why not? Exactly.
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So, this it a brief history of how it
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started. originated in the 1930s by
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Pepin Fernandez and um it was
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and he owned a a department store which
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doesn't exist anymore but it was called
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Galleria's Pratiatoss. Did I say that?
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Pratos Pratos
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which he had some financial well he I
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think he was long gone but in by 1995 it
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was absorbed into Elcourt. So now
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Elport's the only department store we
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have,
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which makes sense because it, you know,
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these kind of these kind of rabbas,
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these kind of sales and discounts are
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often started in big department stores
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because that's those are the ones that
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are doing it. But it obviously has
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become just a a big thing for for
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everybody. And by the 1940s, they
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actually formalized a law um for these
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two national sales seasons in January
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and July. So now it is literally what
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everybody does and it is recognized for
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the economic benefits and now that you
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have it, like you said, everybody knows
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that these are the two times it's
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happening. So get on board.
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Get on board.
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Save up, you know, get your deals then.
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And and and just so you know, like in
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2020, they did re they kind of lacked
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the law allowing people to have sales at
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other times as well. Yeah. So you can't
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they don't just have sales at these
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times, but these are the traditional
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cultural sales that everyone's kind of
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looking out for and waiting for.
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Yeah.
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Um
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and you see the red ribeha signs
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everywhere. We love it.
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Absolutely. I mean it's definitely
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something that they'll take all I mean
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especially in some of the department
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stores. They'll take all the clothes out
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of the mannequins and just dress them in
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red. I mean it's just that's what's
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going on. We don't need to advertise
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anything at this point other than the
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fact that we're having a sale,
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right?
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Um, so we have there's like you might
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find like 30% off then they might be
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deeper discounts with still a good
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collection of things and then you might
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have Ultimas which is like 70% off and I
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have found some really good deals. I
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will say by accident I went shopping one
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time I think in January in Elcourt and
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Glles and found like some really good
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shoes for for Zena at a ridiculously low
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price and I was like oh this is
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fantastic
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and and like you were saying those sales
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prices it they go on as the sales going
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on. So at the beginning you're not
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fighting the deals but if you could wait
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out till the end that's when you're
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getting like the 70 80% off. But um also
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you know if you're one of those perfect
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sizes your size is probably sold out.
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But if you're of a if you're of an
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original figure like me, then you can
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hold out maybe an original the end of
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the sale.
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Yeah. So that you probably if you're a
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regular size, your stuff might not even
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be in the sales in the first place. So
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there you go. Who knows?
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Yeah. Well, I think a lot of people know
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how to how to do the sales. So it's not
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that different from other countries, I
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don't think, as far as how it works, but
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it is, you know, those kind. What I also
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think is cool is because of this
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government regulation, they have to be
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truthful. Like they can't just say, "Oh,
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this is 50% off." They have to prove
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like if the government comes and
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inspects, they want to see the sheet of
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when what when was this priced? What was
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the 100% price? You can't just say this
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is a deal. Like it really has to be a um
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a researchable deal, I guess, is what
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I'm trying to say.
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Absolutely. And I and I do think and you
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know it's going to be like anywhere else
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where some of the big department stores
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will have more going on but I mean the
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smaller shops will also have going on at
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the same time but you know I think it's
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it's harder for them they're still
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trying to participate because you kind
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of have to because otherwise no one's
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going to be buying anything from you at
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that time but they so it is really
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everybody will do something at that time
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I think like all the shops will have
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something going on even if they can't
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compete with like the whole shop you
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know even the department stores. It's
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not everything that's in there. It's you
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have to go to the section that has the
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Rabaha. So, it's not everything. Um, and
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obviously the more the more flaws you
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have, the more you have to put in there,
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right?
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But it's still a really good it's really
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good time to just be aware that it's
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coming up. So, like you were saying, you
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know, a TV or things that might stay on
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sale, wait until the Ultimas sort of
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because that'll be then 70% off if
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you're not too fussy on maybe the size
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of the TV or how smart it is or
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whatever, you know,
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how smart it is.
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Who knows what they put on sale. Another
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thing that was surprising to me which we
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don't have in the states is that
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cosmetics go on sale and during this
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time and Christmas time but like
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perfumes they'll have perfumes 40 50%
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off and in America fragrance does not go
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on sale. It just does not happen. So
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it's very interesting to come here and
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you're like oh I can get a hundred 150
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you know euro bottle of cologne for 70
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bucks this time which is like crazy to
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me. So, we we may have loaded up on some
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phones and perfumes for me and the kids
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during one of these things.
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I will say that you know way more about
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this than I do
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and I would I would gander a guess that
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the sales are not sort of I mean we we
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don't live in Madrid and we're not I'm
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not a big sales shopper. I don't think
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it I think it's a very exciting time and
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everybody shops and it's a bit crazy but
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it's not like Black Friday crazy I don't
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think and I haven't seen it but we might
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get people telling us that it is in
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Madrid or it is somewhere else maybe but
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we haven't seen that kind of madness
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going along with this it's um you know
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it's a it's happening and people are
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just shopping you know it's not like
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it's not line up outside the shop and
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for hours and you know the whole night
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but it could be happening somewhere um
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could be yeah it could I haven't seen it
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either, but you never know.
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You never know. You never know. Um, and
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I would definitely go for some of the
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shops that I love to to shop in already,
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you know, and I and then for me, the
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treat is places like Elcorting Glas
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where I generally don't shop there
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because it's in the city and it's also
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generally more expensive than I want to
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spend on regular things. So, you can get
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some you can get some good deals on
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things that you wouldn't normally buy,
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which is what I do.
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Yes.
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Yeah. very much so. Yeah. Um and the
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clothes I would not normally buy, you
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know, you're like, "Oh, I can get I can
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get something from this store at the H&M
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price." That's kind of nice,
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right? And especially when you have
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kids, I think this is also an
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exceptional thing because you, you know,
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just if you can coordinate your clothes
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shopping and shoe shopping to these
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times of year, then you're going to be
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better off as well. Um, and that's kind
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of a sort of back to school stuff that
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happens for the July one. you're you're
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kind of in the back to school almost
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section. So, what's going to happen in
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some of these stores is especially the
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ones that do back to school stuff,
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they're they're getting rid of stuff and
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then after that they'll bring in the
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whole back to school stuff at regular
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price. So, if you can get you're not
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going to get your pens and pencils and
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and paper and stuff, but if you can get
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your back Yeah. Not the uniforms either,
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but not all schools have uniforms. If
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you can get clothes and shoes in the
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sales, I mean, in July, you're almost
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already back to school. Yeah, for sure.
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Good timing. Well,
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well,
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I think that's it.
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Should we make a date for next week to
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go shopping?
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I think we should. Well, no, we have to
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wait until the ultimate ultimas. So,
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Oh, okay. So, beginning of August. We
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Well, last week of July, we have August.
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Okay,
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that's a date.
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Sounds good.
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All right.
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I'll see you at Elcourt in a month.
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See you in El Court in a month. That's
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