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Christmas comes first
By adamg on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 6:59pm
Jocelyn was a bit nonplussed to see Easter and Valentine's candy already out in the Revere Stop & Shop tonight.
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Bring back the Blue Laws!
Fat Man first!!
Christmas 2015 stuff
Maybe that's what we're actually buying this month, unwittingly.
How time flies!
In 1987, it was the Total Harmonic Convergence. Anyone care to guess what will be the year of the Total Holiday Convergence?
NewYearsPresidentPurimStPatrickEasterPatriotsMemorialIndependenLaborRoshColumYomHalloweenVeteransThanksChrismukkah.
Agreed
However the cycle is exponential. The 2016 Xmas items will be out next July. Within a few years we'll be buying Xmas 2030 items. It will get the point where each day brings us an entire new year of Xmas items.
Pretty soon retailers will no longer be able to denote Christmas goods with a 32bit integer.
Already There..
Or left over from earlier this year?
Stop & Shop
This seems to be a theme at Stop & Shop... they must want to have firsties. Or their policy is, if it can go out on the floor, it goes...
Retailers are so dumb
If they restricted the Christmas selling season to Saturday after Thanksgiving to CHristmas Eve, they would have fewer expenses AND sell more goods.
The "but we need to put the stuff on the shelves as soon as it comes in from our suppliers" is the lamest "justification" for (insert any holiday here) creep I've heard yet.
You can't c
Celebrate his death and subsequent rising before you celebrate his BIRTH!!! Gah!
This madness must end
Seriously. Retailers. We beg you to stop.
Unfortunately, not surprised...
I work at a chain retail store, and these days, most of them have no "back rooms" to speak of. That space was given up to sales floor area years ago.
Seasonal items arrive by way of a "forced distribution," meaning the manufacturer or distributor sends the stuff out when *they* feel it's appropriate, never mind what the calendar says. Retail stores are then "forced" to put the stuff out on the sales floor because it's the only relatively free space to put it.
I don't know about other retail chains, but the managers at my workplace hate the system as it is. They know it annoys customers to see holiday merchandise out-of-season, and without knowing exactly when it will show up we/they are left scrambling to condense other displays to put the new stuff somewhere.
Perhaps if the retailers told
their suppliers they won't accept deliveries of the stuff if it arrives too early, then this "forced distribution" wouldn't happen.
And perhaps retailers should also re-evaluate their policies of "100% of store space is sale space". Does this policy really result in an exponental increase in profits, or just mostly empty stores 99% of the year.