First Christmas sighting

[Crash Cash]

Not only does the local Cracker Barrel have Halloween stuff out for sale, they have a Christmas tree and decorations out too already.

That's a new record. That's just sad.

 

[taterides]

Yeah, Christmas trees at BJ's. I was like what the hell.....

 

[mattster31]

Not only does the local Cracker Barrel have Halloween stuff out for sale, they have a Christmas tree and decorations out too already.
That's a new record. That's just sad.

Same here at the local COSTCO. They never used to put that stuff out till after Halloween. Oh well...........that's marketing for ya.

 

[Feejer/Weejer man]

They have had Christmas stuff at Costco for over a month now. Wow, must need the retail sales early.

 

[vectervp1]

I've been seeing Christmas stuff for about a month now at my local Walgreens. Seems like pretty soon your gonna have a 4th of July/Pre Christmas sale....

 

[kiteman11]

I just want to buy a Valentine's card.

 

[spalkin]

Stores and businesses are doing everything they can these days to extract as many dollars from your wallet as they can in each visit.

I've watched their practices go a long way from first: exemplary customer service will bring them back, to second: maximize the amount of dollars every customer spends per visit, to now: just go ahead and just **** the suckers.

Merry Christmas! Er... Happy Holidays!

 

[RonBB]

Lowes in our area have had Christmas stuff out now for a couple of weeks also.

 

[Mizz Bustanut]

Oh, just wait another week. They'll have their Easter stuff out.

:madsmiley:

 

[Mrs. Scab]

And they wonder why we have trouble getting into the spirit of the holidays...........Its because we're burnt out by the time they get here.

What a rip. :angry2:

 

[Wolfhound]

All I have to do is look at my "new" neighbors house . . . . . anytime of year . . . .

 

[fjrchik]

I've been seeing Christmas stuff for about a month now at my local Walgreens. Seems like pretty soon your gonna have a 4th of July/Pre Christmas sale....

your pretty close art. most holiday advertising campaigns start being created in july. its the slow time in the print world so they start knocking out the stuff they do every year, things that don't have prices on them. i just did a bunch of holiday stuff for Community Coffee last month at work. at a previous job we used the july studio time to shoot all the holiday products for the upcoming ads.