This Christmas you will probably do a good chunk - if not all - of your shopping online. Whether searching Amazon on your laptop during a spare minute at work, or scrolling the ASOS app on your phone.Â
Now we are in November, the Black Friday sales will already be starting in places - as more and more of us try to get an early bargain. You may still head down to the high street, or an out of town shopping centre, to do some browsing in person.Â
But it is nothing like fighting through crowds at popular shops in the 1970s. Back when you had to do all of your shopping in person - or it didn’t get done at all.Â
Take a trip back in time to see what Christmas shoppers looked like 50 years ago.

5. Not even blackouts could stop shoppers
Customers do their Christmas shopping in semi-darkness during an electricity strike in December 1973. | P Wade/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Photo: P Wade/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

6. Gadgets were all the rage
Tech gadgets were still must have gifts. Did you ever get any of these? | Graham Morris/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Photo: Graham Morris/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

7. Nothing like a last minute bargain
Two young boys admire the Tonka toys on a toy stall in December 1971. The boys mingle with City workers looking to grab a last-minute bargain as they look to complete their Christmas shopping. | Mike Barnes/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Photo: Mike Barnes/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

8. Window displays were impressive.
A group of young boys, one of which has his hand pressed against the window as they look at the window display, which includes a train set, of Hamleys toy store. | Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Photo: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images