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First Christmas TV Ad
Posted by itfc1959 on 10 September 2011 - 6:20pm.
Saw the first one last night. For the Sun. Advertising for Christmas. Second week of September.
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It'll be hot cross buns
And Easter eggs In the supermarket next.
Yes
I saw Maltesers advent calendars in Sainsbury's on Friday night.
Exactly
Saw them in our branch today. Along with chocolate santas and snowmen
I was wearing shorts and a tshirt at the time.
You can always tell
Christmas is approaching, they're selling easter eggs in Tesco.
Christmas cards are on sale
In sunny Workington.
Bought some biccies for work last week.
Box had a festive bow and snowflakes
I too
saw the Malteser's Advent calendars in Sainsbury's. Still, it's a bit better than years ago, when a chain of shops I had connections to were putting Christmas crackers on sale in the third week of August!
It's been said before
you need a holiday in between the imaginatively named August Bank Holiday Weekend (phew, puts me in a festive mood just writing it) and what is often referred to as 'Crimbo'. That isn't Halloween (which has been discussed here and found wanting). Too long a haul from August to December.
I always
feel Christmas is coming when Calendar Club open their outlets in town - probably just a few weeks away now.
Its seems to come earlier each year
when I post this song
Blimey!
We haven't even had our summer holiday yet! .... only a week to go now though!
Deliveries of Christmas stock
Arrived bang on the 1st September. I was not amused.
I think I said it last year, but...
Jesus!
Ah, so what?
Why does it bother people so much? If it's just an arbritary date, rather like NYEve, then why not have xmas stock in the shops now?
I quite like seeing all the lovely, red festive tat everywhere. At least I can start buying little bits each week.
I have turned into my dear old mum...
Why not ?
Mince pies in sainsburys with sell by mid-October.
Who eats mince pies in October ???
Moan all you like
but if people didn't buy stuff for Christmas this early, the shops wouldn't stock it.
Cash flow
Exactly. Not everyone can afford to buy everything in a last frantic splurge starting on 1 Dec, so presumably they start buying bits and pieces now.
Retailers don't operate in a vacuum. There's a cost attached to buying stock and storing it, so they must only do it because it moves off the shelves pretty quickly from this time of year onwards.
The real question for me is why there's so much societal and economic pressure exerted on people to buy shed-loads of stuff at Christmas when (a) they can't afford it and (b) a significant proportion of it ends up in the landfill sites, or their online equivalent, eBay and Freecycle.
Aye.
The amount of money wasted at Christmas is criminal. I love the festive season, but try to spend my cash wisely. I watch people pushing groaning trollies round Waitrose or Tesco and constantly wonder how much will be chucked. The whole concept of "Oooh.. Got to get some ****** just in case someone wants some or people pop round.." plus the notion os Christmas as a festival of plenty. This is not a new phenomenem. My grandmother would make a huge deal, at about 8pm on Christmas Day of Putting On A Christmas Spread - a table groaning with calorific excess, when all most of wanted was a quick turkey sarnie. It was a London thing.
Monday July 25, 2011
July Opening For Top Stores' Xmas Sections
High street shops Harrods and Selfridges are to open their Christmas departments this week - a full five months before the big day.
A surge in demand from overseas visitors has prompted the early opening
Both stores are to launch their Christmas ranges on Thursday as more and more shoppers start their festive shopping early.
The stores usually launch Christmas goods in August, but changing consumer trends are behind the move, it is claimed.
Research by Selfridges claims some of the demand has come from China, where the 'Peking pound' spent by tourists in the UK has seen a jump in sales for Christmas goods.
At some point they will be selling Christmas stuff in December again, unfortunately it will be for the next year's Christmas.