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I'm hearing Christmas music in several stores, and the Home Depot, had Christmas decorations out just days before Halloween.
I think retailers are panicking, and the Commie Liberals that make Policy are telling stores to promote Christmas early this year, to boost the failing economy.
This year the early promotion of Christmas is different, It's pure desperate optics.

komputodo says

If thanksgiving dinners are such a special treat, why don't restaurants offer them on their menus year round?

I miss Morison's Cafeteria.

They were pricey and every item was ala carte, but they had somebody's grandma that knew how to cook all of the Traditional food back there.

Shopped at "At Home" Saturday which is a huge (YUGE) warehouse for housewares. About 1/3 or 1/4 of the store was Christmas stuff. They had a small Thanksgiving section and were selling off Halloween stuff in another small section.

They had these giant inflatable Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, Bumble Abominable Snowman. Two stories tall and the bases would fill up a standard driveway easily. Much bigger than the picture posted above. Never seen anything like that living near the West Coast.

Oh, and lots of Christmas music.

just_passing_through says

They had these giant inflatable Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, Bumble Abominable Snowman.

The Home Depot has huge resin Santa and other lawn ornaments, that are reminiscent to the Plastic hollow figures from the 50's.
I remember in the 80's the old geezers were the first customers for the Mini Warehouse storage facilities just to store their huge plastic Christmas yard display.
While the nostalgia side of me, welcomed the sight of those old school figures and conjured up ghosts of Christmas past. I couldn't help but wonder where people store all of that crap, if they got the full Nativity Scene, the full sleigh and a huge Santa for their yard. It just all looked so out of place and so Anti 2022 in every way. Like it's all being sold to be tossed in the trash on December 27th. Even though they are made to last a lifetime.

https://notthebee.com/article/theyre-already-putting-out-christmas-decorations-and-its-only-august-august

They're already putting out Christmas decorations and it's only August. This madness must stop.

At Home Depot, products launched online included eight-foot Santas and giant nutcrackers. And Costco has already started rolling out its artificial Christmas trees on store floors.

This isn't just an isolated rumor, mind you. People are observing this all over the country.

I don't say this lightly, folks: It's time for boycotts. We don't even need an actual boycott. Just STOP BUYING CHRISTMAS STUFF IN AUGUST AND THEY'LL STOP PUTTING IT OUT, PEOPLE.

out here people actually look forward to christmas. can probably sell decorations year round.

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/theyre-already-putting-out-christmas-decorations-and-its-only-august-august

They're already putting out Christmas decorations and it's only August. This madness must stop.

At Home Depot, products launched online included eight-foot Santas and giant nutcrackers. And Costco has already started rolling out its artificial Christmas trees on store floors.

This isn't just an isolated rumor, mind you. People are observing this all over the country.

I don't say this lightly, folks: It's time for boycotts. We don't even need an actual boycott. Just STOP BUYING CHRISTMAS STUFF IN AUGUST AND THEY'LL STOP PUTTING IT OUT, PEOPLE.

People aren't buying stuff, that's why they are putting it out.

I asked an employee at my local grocery store why they were putting out Halloween junk in August, and she just said "well, if we don't, we have a bunch of unsold product after Halloween".

Well, maybe, but who is going to buy a bag of candy in August, store it for 2 months, then hand it out?

By the time Halloween comes around, everybody is going to be burned out by it.

Nobody gets burned out on a 6'4" Werewolf.

richwicks says

And Costco has already started rolling out its artificial Christmas trees on store floors.

Yes, they did this year. It reminded me that the summer is almost over!

Blue says

Yes, they did this year. It reminded me that the summer is almost over!

But it isn't? This is the height of summer!

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, it's all ages away.