MOTHER FUCKING HOLIDAY SEASON!!!

[Ran]

We are experiencing too much holiday creep. It seems like major retailers are pushing holidays further and further up each year. Now, I love capitalism as much as the next guy, but things are getting out of hand. I have a plan to fix it.

1. Items for holidays like St. Patrick's day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Valentine's day can only be sold 3 weeks prior to that holiday.
Halloween items can only be displayed in the month of October (only because of the costume planning)
Christmas decorations can't be sold until mid November.
Half of this crap ends up on clearance anyway.

2. It should be illegal to play Christmas music before December 7th.

3. This Black Friday crap is getting out of hand. Some retailers are now opening on Thankgiving to get an extra step. Other retailers keep moving their opening time earlier and earlier. There is an ad for some place that opens at 4am. Why? My wife was at KMart earlier this week with her aunt. They asked about an XBOX 360. The KMart employee said they can't sell any XBoxes or Wiis until Thanksgiving day, even though they are in this week's regular ad. Um, what's the difference if you sell it now or later in the week?

3a.
I'm no economist, but if retailers are having trouble making profits, maybe they should lower their prices a tad. There has to be a fine line between setting the regular price, a "sale price", and a "clearance price". If they do it right, maybe less items will make it to the clearance aisle.

[vynsane]

did you censor that title yourself? i don't know if there's separate censor for titles than there is for the content of the post...

and i agree whole-heartedly with everything you just said.

[Ran]

yeah, self censored.

[vynsane]

yeah, self censored.

psh... pussy.

[Ran]

Fine. I fixed the title.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

For me, since my birthday is December 1, all this shit is especially frustrating. I'd like to be able to, y'know, focus on my birthday AND enjoy the Christmas "season" stuff, but it's harder each year to put it off until a few days into December.

Black Friday is just fuckin' ridiculous. Thank god I already found those Battlepacks, since I was planning on getting them then (since I thought they were coming out then, but guess not). If people just wait until later in the day, all the same shit will still be there, but the stupid fat fucks will not.

[Diabolical]

Post subject: MOTHER FUCKING HOLIDAY SEASON!!!

Its not the holiday season - it is the fucking Christmas season.

I'm so damn sick of it all already. It doesn't help when you work in a store when the Christmas display has been up since September and Christmas music has been playing since November 1.

[Ran]

I know, I know, but I was including Thanksgiving and Halloween to an extent, so I used "holiday". Maybe that's part of the problem...By calling it "Holiday" it blends everything from October 31st to January 1st.

[anarky]

I found Pax Boknik, Buzzer, Beach Head, Lady Jaye, and Serpentor today. Serpentor sucks balls. Lady Jaye had, I hope, a shitty paint job on the one I found. (I'll be fucking mad if they blew off such an important figure, especially when her lover is such a fine figure.) I didn't want to stand in a line of 50 people.

[kidhuman]

We are experiencing too much holiday creep. It seems like major retailers are pushing holidays further and further up each year. Now, I love capitalism as much as the next guy, but things are getting out of hand. I have a plan to fix it.

Agreed, I dont need to see Christmas lights in August

1. Items for holidays like St. Patrick's day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Valentine's day can only be sold 3 weeks prior to that holiday.
Halloween items can only be displayed in the month of October (only because of the costume planning)
Christmas decorations can't be sold until mid November.
Half of this crap ends up on clearance anyway.

Again Agreed. People aren't buying most of the crap anyway.

2. It should be illegal to play Christmas music before December 7th.

I dont have a problem with the music. As far back as I remember it has always started the day after Thanksgiving. Some stations are playing them a week before now which is retarded.

3. This Black Friday crap is getting out of hand. Some retailers are now opening on Thankgiving to get an extra step. Other retailers keep moving their opening time earlier and earlier. There is an ad for some place that opens at 4am. Why? My wife was at KMart earlier this week with her aunt. They asked about an XBOX 360. The KMart employee said they can't sell any XBoxes or Wiis until Thanksgiving day, even though they are in this week's regular ad. Um, what's the difference if you sell it now or later in the week?

Kmart has been opening on Thanksgiving for about 10 years now. Smart move if you ask me, Wal-Mart only closes one day a year and that is Christmas.

Some stores like JC Pennys opened at4am only to compete with Wal-Mart and Target. They dont sell the same items(electronics etc) so they need a step up on the clothing items.

3a.
I'm no economist, but if retailers are having trouble making profits, maybe they should lower their prices a tad. There has to be a fine line between setting the regular price, a "sale price", and a "clearance price". If they do it right, maybe less items will make it to the clearance aisle.

Agreed again.


I for one enjoy getting some good deals on Black Friday. Trust me on this one: If I still lived in NYC I would not be doing this shit. I worked on Black Friday in retail and it was not fun. I live in a college town with 2 WM's, Target, a mall, Kmart and many many other stores so its not too bad when everyone is seperated. I pick one tore and go there for everythign I need. Most idiots go to electronics for TV and such. Fuck that. I will wait. People were camping out overnight at Best Buy to get 1 of the 5 laptops they got in for $199.

I went to Target. It opened at 6, got there about 5:25 and was like 30th in line, not to bad. People were kind and friendly and didnt push and shove.

[anarky]

I also predict BF specials will be less... special in the future. They're supposed to get people in the store to buy other stuff. Only people go in and just get the freebies and loss leaders. So they're not making the money they used to.

[kidhuman]

Alot of people are being lazy and going with Cyber Monday now, which is the same thing, except internet sales on Monday after T-day

[anarky]

I think Cyber Monday blows a little more than Black Friday.

What's insane, I think, is whatever piece of shit is the "hot toy" for the year. No kids are consulted on this bullshit. No parents apparently communicate with their kids to find out what they want. And, two years in a row, their stupidity has flabbergasted me. Last year, I looked at the tons upon tons of that fucking Millennium Falcon Transformer and thought no one would buy it. They were gone by noon on Black Friday. Same thing with Ultimate Bumblebee Impostor Bionicle. About a week after Thanksgiving, I was at a customer service desk at TRU, and (swear to God) a frantic man came up begging the store employees to call the other stores and find out if they had it. (Apparently it's against company policy for them to check now. Yet another thing about TRU that's gone to hell in the past decade. The store used to be helpful and fun.)

The other thing that gets me: PC crap where it doesn't belong. You want to only refer to "Holidays" in your ads? Fine. But don't replace "Christmas" where it doesn't make sense. There's a commercial of a family opening presents and stockings under a tree on Christmas morning. And then the woman says to the man, "I almost forgot to give you your holiday present." That's just fucking stupid. No one talks that way.