This is genius.

Navigating your way through a busy pub or restaurant while laden down with heavy shopping bags is not a good look.

This year however, there’s an alternative: you can shop your socks off, then drop your bags at the Christmas Shopping Valet at No.1 Cook Street, where somebody will take care of them for you in exchange for a donation to Breakthrough Cancer Research.

The Shop ‘N’ Drop service is open to shoppers from now until Sunday, December 23rd from 11am-7pm, Monday to Saturday. The Sunday service operates from 12pm – 5pm.

Free from the weight of your Christmas shopping haul, you can enjoy a festive get-together with friends or nab a table for dinner and collect your goodies afterwards.

Just don’t forget where you left them.