Dean: Listen listen listen! Dean: Cicadas: God's little trumpeters of summer. Heart: Ya hear that, walmart and target?! We still got time, so back off!
My daughter works near a national park, and the early start of most schools anymore totally kills the tourism trade by mid-August. How’s a girl supposed to earn a living???
I understand folks displeasure with the holiday stuff being put in stores so far in advance of the actual holiday, but I feel the need to point out its not the stores requesting this stuff sent to them.
All these stores, Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, ect.ect. have a ‘home office’ who decides what get shipped to them and when ~ and these folks look at the sell reports from the previous five years. Those sale reports show just how much of the products sell and when it sells.
If the consumer was not buying massive amounts of the holiday product within the first month of it being released in the store - then the companys would not push it out so soon.
“We” are to blame for having Christmas items in August.
Lyons Group, Inc. over 15 years ago
What Heart met by that is those stores are still reminding her and Dean it’ll be time to go “Back To School” again.
kfaatz925 over 15 years ago
I wish we still had time! ;)
Yukoneric over 15 years ago
Some schools, like mine, do not close. We go year around.
pearlandpeach over 15 years ago
I LIKE this one….Walmart and others, start holidays WAY to early…..Christmans before Halloween is terrible.
artybee over 15 years ago
My daughter works near a national park, and the early start of most schools anymore totally kills the tourism trade by mid-August. How’s a girl supposed to earn a living???
Bacardii_LS over 15 years ago
I understand folks displeasure with the holiday stuff being put in stores so far in advance of the actual holiday, but I feel the need to point out its not the stores requesting this stuff sent to them. All these stores, Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, ect.ect. have a ‘home office’ who decides what get shipped to them and when ~ and these folks look at the sell reports from the previous five years. Those sale reports show just how much of the products sell and when it sells.
If the consumer was not buying massive amounts of the holiday product within the first month of it being released in the store - then the companys would not push it out so soon.
“We” are to blame for having Christmas items in August.
mtatulli Premium Member over 15 years ago
Do you really believe that, Bacardii? I don’t ever recall requesting vast amounts of Halloween candy in August.
NoBrandName over 15 years ago
True that. Many companies work under the philosophy of “how will the customers know what they want (or when they want it) unless we tell them?”
Asrial over 15 years ago
You tell them, Heart !!
Ushindi over 15 years ago
This makes me realize I’m way past my “Use By” date.
Templo S.U.D. over 15 years ago
Okay. A cicada is –of what I read on WIkipedia– are almost like crickets or grasshoppers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada
Ed The Red Premium Member over 15 years ago
School has been in session here for two weeks. The 90 days of summer vacation I had as a child is long gone.
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
rerun but I’ll say it anyway: when they cry…