A warm month of shoppingAJ Gonzalez
The mildest temperatures of the 11 editions of the Shopping Night They allowed the commercial and leisure event in the city on June 7, when temperatures barely exceeded 30º C. Center became a “much more comfortable” festival in 2024 than last year, where around 150,000 participants, although in this edition “in a more spaced way”, taking advantage of the evening hours and prolonging the presence of buyers until well into the early hours of the morning, despite the music having ended. This is what he explained to Diario CÓRDOBA Manuel Blasco, president of Centro Córdoba.
The programming of attractions also contributed to the success of this edition, under the theme of a tribute to queenwhich came to fill the Las Tendillas squareor the raffle for trips to London through the distribution of 3,000 scratch cards and gift tickets with the purchases made in the previous days, which already encouraged the influx of customers to the stores days before Shopping Night.
Also the greater influx of visitors arriving from outside the city was particularly felt in this edition, explained Manuel Blasco. Chapter aside, it was found “more partying inside the businesses, many coat racks in the street and many offers.” Once again, clothing and footwear led the purchases on this peculiar shopping day.
The organization estimates that 150,000 customers will attend the 260 participating stores.
The objectives of the 11th Shopping Night continued to focus on make local businesses visible and known of the area and in making the most of all the appeal that local commerce has, all of this “converted into a city event that the people of Cordoba have marked on their calendar and that they have made their own,” he told Diario CÓRDOBA Rafael Bados, president of the Córdoba Trade Federation.
A great atmosphere
Shopping aside, and focusing on the most playful aspect of the commercial call, we can remember the animation that already reigned in Las Tendillas with the Olivetti cover group long before 9:00 p.m., the Queen parade cheering between commerce and commerce or the performance on the boulevard of the Gran Capitán del Gospel Choirheaded by Nacho Lozanoin addition to having DJs distributed in key points of the commercial area of the Center with music from the immortal group of Freddy Mercury.
The hospitality sector also benefited from the initiative, with terraces and interiors of establishments full of customers from the early hours of the night until, practically, the mandatory closing time, both in the area where the customers directly 260 participating businesses They prepared surprises and promotions like in the streets surrounding Shopping Night.
Summer sales have been brought forward, starting in some cases at the beginning of June
Early sales
Once the party was over, but perhaps in the slipstream of Shopping Night 2024, and after the liberalization of the sales calendar for years, many businesses in the commercial area of the Center district brought forward the classic summer sales, with discounts between 20 to 50% on most offers, and which will last until the end of August. In some cases, discounts were even left from Shopping Night itself, with commercial establishments that had already joined this summer’s sales becoming widespread starting this week, all with shopping streets particularly lively due to the mild temperatures that , in general and compared to other years, have been able to be enjoyed in this month of June.
