Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 05, 2009

Alice, I totally agree…

Holiday merchandise creep continues …

Lucky you celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving - our stores have started with Christmas! (Downunder)

What, no shelf love for St. Valentine’s Day?

You’ll find that at Victoria’s Secrets

Retail employees hate all the garbage…………….

I prefer avoiding the Christmas rush, but…

We were shopping for Halloween decorations for our Halloween/daughter’s 18th birthday party yesterday, and there were boxes and boxes of stuff labelled “Christmas Decorations” on the shelves waiting to be opened and stocked. Sheesh.

I am waiting for the holiday creep to loop around. Eventually, after years of seeing christmas decorations move from november to october to september (and so on), we will return to the point where the decorations go up in the month of the holiday itself.

As long as there are children, we’ll never escape the dreaded “holiday creep”. The marketing departments must be run by children!!

In early September here in NJ a local supermarket had a Christmas display out and they were proud of it. I asked the manager if he might be jumping the gun a bit and he gave looked at me as if I were an idiot, which of course, I am. Ain’t greed grand, folks?

aaahhh…marketing 101. always put the most attractive and current items at kid level shelves. good observation, Richard.

And on the very top shelf…Halloween again! It is an infinite loop…You are wise, Alice, not to stare into infinity.

Look away, children!—lest you glimpse the God of Merchandise and disinigrate!

San Francisco was displaying huge ‘n hokey plastic snowflakes on Market Street by the 19th of September because, here in the bay area, we always have snow in mid-September. So, for this and sundry other reasons, no peering down Market Street, either.

Our stores have christmas stuff up too, it’s disgusting. Slow down a little. By time Christmas actually gets here I’m sick of it.

so so true

At Lee Chong’s grocery in Cannery Row, you could buy Christmas decorations in August, Valentines in May, Fourth of July decorations in January, anything you wanted any at time of the year, and none of it was EVER marked down for the off-season. It made for an interesting decor when Mack and the Boys threw a surprise birthday party for Doc. Great fun, until the frogs got loose. Too bad Doc couldn’t make it. Oh well. It wasn’t his birthday anyway.

Yep… I guess it’s about time to wish everyone a Happy Hallowanksmas. ;->

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