In Leeds, Dean Stratton, manager of the White Rose Shopping Centre, told the BBC they were experiencing a very busy Christmas and Boxing Day.
"We'll also be open on Christmas Day and Boxing Day when all the homeless will be given a free meal, " added Mrs Sillifant.
On the railways, there are no Arriva Trains services available on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, with only Saturday services running on weekdays until the new year.
It returns for a third series, starting with two Christmas specials on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day.
The data tallies with figures from research firm Experian that suggested the number of visits to retail websites rose 86% on Christmas Eve, 71% on Christmas Day and 17% on Boxing Day compared with a year earlier, as many chains began their online sales before Christmas.
Many High Street retailers had reported a last-minute surge in shoppers the last weekend before Christmas, and bumper Boxing Day sales, following what had otherwise been a fairly quiet run-up to Christmas, not helped by the rain.
But Mr Collins said he could not "pay people twice" and that train drivers' salaries were all-inclusive and covered Boxing Day and Christmas Day.
That share was down just 0.1 percentage points from November - a much smaller fall than usually occurs as this time of the year, when more shoppers typically head for the High Street for their Christmas purchases and for the Boxing Day sales.
No trains will be running on Christmas Day and there will be only limited services on Boxing Day.
Most markets are closed on Tuesday for Christmas and some markets, including those in Canada, the U.K. and Australia, are closed Wednesday for Boxing Day.
And when the author of "A Christmas Carol" was writing, the great clanking machinery of a Ramadan-length Christmas had not got into gear, and English people reserved Dec. 26 ("Boxing Day") for the exchange of tokens.
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