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Kmart Customers Say 'Shame on You' for Early Holiday Ad
ABC News ^ | Sept. 12, 2013 | REBECCA JARVIS and SUSANNA KIM REBECCA JARVIS More From Rebecca ยป Chief Business & Economics Corresp

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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To: SkyDancer

Newspaper Carrier Day (September 4th)


41 posted on 09/12/2013 2:02:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Oh, okay. it’s the great creator-god, Tangaroa foot bath and towel snap Holidays.


42 posted on 09/12/2013 2:14:01 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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To: dragnet2

I just really don’t do holidays anymore. We have a huge open house on Christmas Eve for friends and family, food & drinks, and we have 3 grandchildren that we give gift cards to.
That’s it. It is stress free and everyone has a great time Christmas Eve.


43 posted on 09/12/2013 2:41:05 PM PDT by sheana
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To: SkyDancer
"Oh, an Amish holiday. How quaint."

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They could really bank on 'Sadie Hawkins' Day!

44 posted on 09/12/2013 4:02:52 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
"They could call it Kresge's Five and Ten..."

----------------------------------> I miss Kresge's and any five and dime stores.

'Five and Dime' - good times - good times"

45 posted on 09/12/2013 4:07:57 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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To: sheana
"I just really don’t do holidays anymore. We have a huge open house on Christmas Eve for friends and family, food & drinks, and we have 3 grandchildren that we give gift cards to. That’s it. It is stress free and everyone has a great time Christmas Eve."

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Sounds like a nice, stress less day. Stressing on the holiday - I try to plan ahead-like getting Christmas cards ready by Thanksgiving but I don't mail them until first week of December. I don't have to find everyone's addresses or updates to addresses, etc. because doing that drives me crazy.

46 posted on 09/12/2013 4:22:35 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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To: AKinAK
GREED !

Or desperation.

Due to the Obama depression, I've had to start my own business, to find any kind of employment. I have an on-line business. One thing that I've learned is that Black Friday really is get-in-the-black Friday. You just break even for most of the year. Christmas literally is, do or die.

So I'm much more sympathetic to retailers than I used to be. There's no excuse for the "Happy Season" crap, though.

47 posted on 09/12/2013 4:29:35 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: MarineMom613

I was in Sam’s Club the other day, and they had Christmas ornaments and wreaths for sale.


48 posted on 09/12/2013 4:55:40 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)
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To: angcat

What office was he campaigning for ?


49 posted on 09/12/2013 5:17:30 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Probably working for Spitzer.
50 posted on 09/12/2013 5:44:38 PM PDT by angcat
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To: SkyDancer

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51 posted on 09/12/2013 5:48:40 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

You have to read the banter between nickcarraway and I to understand.


52 posted on 09/12/2013 6:10:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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To: nickcarraway

Has anyone ever left a Kmart and thought “I can’t wait to go back”?


53 posted on 09/12/2013 6:18:51 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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