Posted on 09/12/2013 12:52:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Kmart should be ashamed for airing its first holiday commercial some 100 days before Christmas when temperatures topped 90 degrees in much of the country, some shoppers say.
"I do not want to see Christmas ads when it is still SUMMER," wrote a customer on Kmart's Facebook page. "I will not be shopping at Kmart this year due to your advertising this early, I don't care what the reason."
Kmart, a unit of Sears, is defending the timing of the new ad, saying it aired early to announce the rollout of a new promotion that began Sept. 8.
In a statement to ABC News, Kmart said, "Customers can plan in advance in order to take advantage of layaway for holiday purchases."
Another Facebook user told Kmart, "There is no reason to make the holidays into a consumer nightmare. You should be ashamed."
Retailers are gearing up for the holiday selling season, when many companies ring up 20 percent of the year's sales.
"The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the shortest it can ever be on retail selling days. [Retailers] have to start earlier," said Jan Kniffen, retail analyst and CEO of J Rogers Kniffen Worldwide Enterprises.
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don’t shop there anyway.’the crowd is’too dangerous.
GREED !
Kmart is going after Christmas layaway sales as their “Hail Mary” pass. You need at least 90 days lead time to do layaway.
Outside the 4th, I’ve reached a point where all these holidays are nearly meaningless...
The greedy fat corps would concoct a holiday every single day of the year if they could, hoping the ocean of dummies would throw more money at them...
Hills Department Stores used to set one entire store up for Christmas in late August. Trees, tinsel, snowmen, Jingle Bells on the intercom, the whole nine yards. All just so that their buyers and senior execs could come and see what their Christmas merchandising setup was going to look like.
Blame Obama. He is in perpetual campaign mode. Merchants should be in perpetual Christmas mode.
Favorite Dennis the Menace cartoon:
“Look Joey! Christmas Decorations!...That means Halloween is almost here!”
Trying to make people ship their pants?
K-MART???? They closed most of the Big K Marts around here. Only one or two left.
No amount of Christmas decoration can hide the fact that the inside of my local K-Mart looks like a Soviet era commodities store. Seriously, cinder block with a thin coat of peeling grey paint. Ceiling tiles missing or covered in water stains and puke green 1970’s floor tiles.
LOL!
Will they be selling “holiday trees”?
Boy you really can get anything at K-Mart
Hallmark is also already advertising for Christmas. Saw it on tv the other night a couple of times. I had to look up when I heard the Christmas music. Sure enough....
I’m sorry but what Holiday are they talking about???? /sarc if needed.
LOL I hate going there but I had to find some school items for my child.
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