Christmas already???????

[NCWayne]

Believe it or not I just saw the first Christmas commercial of this year. Yep, K-Mart has just started airing their new commercial telling you it"s time to lay away for that day at the end of December "that"s not Christmas", rather the day that everyone in the family has a birthday.....they even have a Merry Birthday cake, with candles...

Personally I think the just need to advertise for all of the holidays year round.....Nah, not really, but it often seems like it"s what they would do if they could.

 

[whizkidkyus]

I was in Walmart the other night and they had their layaway started back . They had signs up about it . I was also in our local Dollar General store the other day and they even have Christmas decorations already out . It's early September around here and hot ( 90 deg. F ) and humid with sweat rolling off of you outside . Christmas is their biggest event every year so I guess they start early to make the most of it .

Whizkid

 

[JerryS]

If it weren't for Halloween being the stores' second-biggest sales event, the Christmas stuff would already be in the aisles. I never thought they'd figure a way to commercialize Thanksgiving (my favorite holiday) but danged if they haven't come up with Black Friday (which is already backing up into Thursday).

 

[Brendon-KS]

The level of consumerism that our country has attained is quite depressing, especially leading up to Christmas. Worse yet, it seems that a large part of the country's economy is based on it - if everyone would stop buying stuff they don't need the economy would collapse. (Why else would the government send us "stimulus checks" in the mail and encourage us to go out and buy stuff?) Then, to get people to buy stuff they can't afford in the first place stores offer layaway. Got to hand it to some people through; to put something on layaway now means you already know what you're getting someone for Christmas. Usually takes me well into December before I figure that out.

 

[Spudm]

And then we wonder why time seems to be going by so fast....

 

[Dick2]

Costco & Sam's has some Christmas stuff out. Doesn't seem right when it's still over 100 degrees outside.

 

[IH2444]

(quoted from post at 08:52:35 09/06/14) Costco & Sam's has some Christmas stuff out. Doesn't seem right when it's still over 100 degrees outside.

So they would never put out Christmas stuff in Central America?

 

[Donald Lehman]

I hate it as much as anybody, but if I understand things correctly, Christmas sales makes or breaks the year for reatailers. As it gets inceasingly harder to maintain profits for whatever reason you care to state, it kinda forces them to extend their highest sales season as much as possible. Nothing drive me nuts like going into a store in Jan. looking for long johns or a pair of gloves and find nothing but bikinis as far as the eye can see!

 

[Goose]

Which retailer was it last year that had the commercial for on-line purchases with several people saying, "I shipped my pants"?

Y'all know how it actually sounded. I cracked up every time I saw it.

 

[ShadetreeRet]

JerryS, I'm with you. Thanksgiving to me should be an important day, yet it seems to be pushed into a corner, so to speak. I know, the food stores do a good business around Thanksgiving, but that's nothing compared to the other stores at other times. And as Whizkid mentioned below, I was in our local Dollar General the other day and could tell they were beginning to reset for something as they had piled most of the summer items onto one display shelf. Haven't been back yet, but likely for Christmas mdse. or Halloween.

 

[Whichester1]

I fell for late summer/early fall Christmas shopping once and put the items away where nobody (including myself) would see them. Got busy with other things and it slipped my mind and recipients had other needs. To make a long story short I bought them double gifts and they received double gifts.

 

[Dell (WA)]

Wayne........my mom always seemed to start baking Fruit Cake just after labor day. In addition to the standard "candied" fruits, she always seemed to find extra "cherries". I had the task of de-seeding the figs and choppin' into itty-bitty bitts. After baking in standard bread pans, she'd wrap'em in torn sheets and soak'em in grape juice 'stedda RUM as we were a tee-totaling BAPTIST family. After soaking, she'd putt'em inna sealed 5-gal lard bucket and putt-it in the cool BASEMENT. She'd soak'em several times during the fall/winter. Then wrapp'em in tinfoil and send'em to all the relatives fer Christmas. They'd cumm outta the wrap almost like JELLO. Certainly NOT like doorstops like some fruitcakes. One year she fergott 2-cakes and when we opened the still moist cakes, the grape juice had fermented. They were DELICIOUS!!! (grin).......now why is my mouth watering???.........fruitcake Dell

 

[john in la]

Since the layaway is a 12 week program; and we are only 14 weeks from the last pickup date (usually around the 12th of Dec.) it would seem right that they have started running commercials.