I don’t recall any store in my hometown of DeFuniak Springs doing anything out of the ordinary for Christmas.
Nothing like the scene in “A Christmas Story” of Higbees.
One store did do a unique and actually memorable thing once a year. They would serve all you could eat boiled peanuts. Just throw the shells on the floor which was wood.
It was the “Quality Store”. They sold good solid mid price goods such as Wrangler jeans.
Well yarddog you wouldn’t.....You live in Florida!
.We Florida folk don’t get the Hallmark Experience when the Christmas season is usually, almost always hot, humid and sweaty