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Record Boxing Day sales figures expected

AFRUpdated 24 Dec 2018 — 2:24 PM, first published at 2:22 PM

Australian shoppers are set to splurge a record $2.49 billion at the Boxing Day sales.

It will be the biggest single spending day of a Christmas season that already has retailers raking in a record-breaking $50 billion in sales since mid- November, the National Retail Association says.

"This is the largest Christmas we've seen in some time, which is great news for retailers, especially with those figures being quite flat across the year," chief executive Dominique Lamb told reporters in Brisbane on Monday