Boxing Day mayhem breaks out as shoppers queue for hours and stores become overcrowded [Video]

21:29 EST 25 Dec 2024, updated 21:35 EST 25 Dec 2024

Aussies have turned out in droves to the Boxing Day sales, queueing outside stores for hours and squeezing their way through packed shops in search of a bargain. 

Video posted to social media showed Melbourne‘s DFO South Wharf shopping centre was especially crowded on Thursday, with a winding queue to get into the Nike store and a wait of up to two hours.

Customers standing outside as they waited were forced to deal with temperatures set to hit 36C. 

The shopping centre itself was overcrowded, with shoppers brushing past each other as they went in search of deals. 

Nike was also a major draw in Adelaide, with a massive queue gathering outside a store at Harbour Town in the morning. 

When the doors opened the crowd cheered and jostled with each other to get inside.  

It was a similar scene at one Kmart in Brisbane, with video …