Picture: The queue for the sales this morning on Grafton Street was fairly big

We hope you weren't stuck in this queue for the sales at Brown Thomas this morning

Retaielrs are reporting that the Christmas trade wasn't quite as strong as they'd hoped, and are encouraging shoppers to come down and check out their sales, as they've got a lot of stock that they're going to look to offload. What they're hoping is that plenty of people will be in the shops today, trying to get the best bargains in the sales, and that certainly looks to be the case at Brown Thomas this morning, after they tweeted out this picture before the store opened this morning, while JOE was wrapped up in bed.

15 minute #countdown until the doors open for #TheWinterSALE. We have some bargain hunters waiting patiently #queue pic.twitter.com/TZyCMVHcf2

— Brown Thomas (@brownthomas) 26 dezembro 2013

We hope they all get what they're looking for in there, but it looks like it could be a bit manic.