As much as I enjoy shopping online, but during Christmas seasons I normally prefer to do most of my shopping in stores and a huge market in the center of our state district. There one can get lots of commodity at cheaper prices because of stiff competition among the sellers. But I did buy a few things online. Things that I don't really want to come and stress myself over going to the market for.
Falling victim to pick pocketers is something that is common every festive occasion, in as much as there are people who are very serious looking for how to buy what they came to the mall or market for, there are several people who equally came to steal. I think two Christmas back, one guy was caught stealing and he was beaten to pulp in the market before he was given to the security guards. If care wasn't taken, they would have killed him but it was not his death day, so he survived.