'Summernats phenomenon' delivers 50pc spike in sales at sex shops as tourists flock to Canberra car festival
By
Alkira Reinfrank
Many of the 100,000 visitors to Australia's biggest car show, Summernats, are ditching the burning rubber and heading to Canberra's sex shops.
This weekend marks the most profitable time of the year for local adult stores, with businesses attributing huge spikes in sales to the four-day car festival.
Manager of Hello Sexy Darcy Jamieson said they had seen a 50 per cent increase in sales and expected the figure to increase in the coming days.
We get a lot of Summernats people from out of town come here because it's the one Canberra thing to do ... go to sex shops.
Manager of Hello Sexy Darcy Jamieson said they had seen a 50 per cent increase in sales and expected the figure to increase in the coming days.
"Compared to a non-Summernats weekend there's been about a ... 50 per cent increase in sales," he said.
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