Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

[ksmith]

Just saw my first Christmas commercial, (dis)courtesy of Lowe's.

It's the second of November, FCOL.

Comments

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

I hear you. Unfortunately, too much of our economy now depends on holiday sales. It's only going to get worse.

Hallmark stores have had holiday ornaments out for sale since July.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Given how holiday sales will likely *suck*, I guess I should be surprised that they didn't start sooner.

[mithriltabby]

They waited until after Hallowe’en? What astonishing restraint! I was horrified one time when I wandered into a Bed, Bath, and Beyond in July and they had a twitching Santa-zombie on display...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Now a Santa-zombie would be cool.

"Have you any reindeer braaaaaaains?"

[pbray.livejournal.com]

The local mall put out Christmas goods for sale before Columbus Day. And my favorite grocery store not only had Christmas display items (trees, lights, cards, etc) up since early October, but by noon on October 31st they had completely torn down the Halloween candy section and were replacing it with Christmas candy.

Bah. And humbug. And more humbug.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I think I'm with you about preferring Thanksgiving.

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

I beat you. I saw my first one yesterday, courtesy of Overstock.com. I believe I actually shrieked.

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

Mine was yesterday, courtesy of Canadian Tire. (A dead giveaway that I'm Canadian. :-) It was cute but way too early.

[ebenstone.livejournal.com]

2:30 pm EST I saw my first...it was for a Garvin Navigation System.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Don't tell me--Santa needed a nav system.

[rarelylynne.livejournal.com]

Our local Wal Mart was playing Xmas music on the PA today.

*le sigh*

And I actually ENJOY the holiday.

[afraclose.livejournal.com]

That's okay. I heard my first bit of Christmas music yesterday, on the 1st.

[(Anonymous)]

We've had commercials for layaway at K-Mart for at least two weeks now. This is especially annoying as you know everything will be much cheaper after Thanksgiving and even more so as it gets closer to Xmas.

I feel especially offended by Christmas creep because my birthday is Nov. 30th, and I really want to celebrate it before thinking about Christmas.

Cynthia

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

Weeks ago I saw a Christmas merchandise for sale at Lowe's. Over the weekend Borders was playing religious Christmas carols before it got dark out, though that switched over at some point to secular musics.

A friend who used to work in the administrative offices for one of the big box warehouse-type high volume sales to individuals, families, and small businesses chains, said that Halloween, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas are all too close for efficient high volume merchandise selling, and that the profit from Thanksgiving Day stuff had been dropping--so, the consumer goods business decided to focus on Halloween and Christmas and promote them more, and mostly ignore Thanksgiving Day....