Posted on 08/16/2019 4:48:36 PM PDT by rintintin
To many, late July might seem like peak pool-float season, a time for spiked seltzer and SPF, and the halfway point of summer (which it is). For others, though, this point in the calendar means one thing: Its finally time to start Halloween shopping.
Tomorrow is August...so...its basically Halloween, Target tweeted on the last day of the month, garnering more than 10,000 likes and 4,000 retweets. There were a few too soon replies, and many Taylor Swift stans chiding the retailer for skipping over her album release date, but mostly, people were very much on board with the sentiment.
Earlier in the month, Target started pre-orders for its Hyde and Eek! Boutique, including a range of adaptive costumes for kids with disabilities. While the product wont hit stores until late August or mid-September, depending on the location, there are other parts of the mall where the jack-o-lanterns and cobwebs are already out in full force.
At Home, the home decor superstore, was perhaps first to kick off the season, stocking shelves with spooky merch as early as May 31. The crafts chains Michaels and Joann started in mid-July, leaving customers ample time to buy supplies for DIY projects.
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This isn’t the 1600s? Aww man. And I was looking forward to the witch burning a few weeks hence. lol.
No offense, but I am perpetually amused by the new usage of “anymore,” to mean “these days” or “nowadays.” Hey - language changes!
A bad habit, fer sure.
Desperately trying to move product, and lots of it....
I suspect a lot of retailers (and, by extension, producers) are hurting much worse than they’re letting on, and are trying to pull in as much cash as they can by snookering the Great Unwashed into buying as much as possible, and fast.
Yes because crafters need the lead time to make their projects
The day after Halloween is known as all Saints day in the Westernn culture.
The Mexican Day of the dead is not western culture.
Amazing how many western culture people let their holy days disappear.
The stores have to plan several months ahead. The merch is coming in and they have to put it somewhere, preferably where customers can buy it. It’s just business, not satanic forces.
For the food items you get them sent in November or December. You are just doing a pre-order of the items.
My grandma sent us gifts of a ham and chocolate covered apples last year that she ordered in July that I think we got in early December.
I watched a few of the presentations this year and some items you could also lock in the price for a Spring order.
Thanks for the info
I don’t watch shopping channels and have no idea how they work.
It sounds like futures trading. You’re betting that prices will go up and not down.
Indeed and I find it DISGUSTING!
Hallmark IS OFF THE MARK.
“Satan”
Samhain is the apparent origin of celebrating ‘All Hallow’s Eve’ and we really don’t know much of anything about the Celtic Druids. They were secretive and didn’t write anything down. What little we do know comes second hand from their Roman enemies, who had an interest in making the Druids look as bad as possible. 20th century “Druid worship” is suburban make believe.
That witch burning was a Puritan sport. Probably not a coincidence that the old Puritan homeland is today a bastion of the secular hard left, seeing as their non-Puritan neighbors found them to be insufferably self-righteous busybodies. So that part never changed. Today they would burn Trump voters.
I used to order things like that for Christmas, you used to choose ship dates when you ordered. I have not done that in years because everyone is on a diet now so not sure if they still do that with perishables.
I typically leave all of my shopping to the last minute.
I used to go shopping on Christmas Eve a few hours before the stores closed.
Lots of things would be marked down drastically and the crowds had thinned out just as drastically.
But now my wife does most of the shopping and I just buy for her.
She is like a hunter on safari. Looking for that illusive bargain. Sometimes I get dragged along like a Sherpa.
Sometimes she and her sister will do the Black Friday sales. I flatly refuse to do those sales. I hate crowds and I hate traffic. I simply refuse. If it makes her angry with me, so be it.
Amazing how well the communist plan to destroy Christianity has worked.
I have a couple white pumpkins in my garden.
I may just see this today as I happen to be meeting a friend for lunch in Salem today aka Halloween world central! I guess today is the Fairy Festival...i hope that means kids dressed up with fairy costumes but I do tend to fall on the optimistic side of things...
Amazing how well the communist plan to destroy Christianity has worked.
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Because Christians let them.
Christians and what has happened to them are real warnings for Islam and PRC.
Both will fight real hard to get and maintain their beliefs, traditions, and trajectory.
the 12 days of Christmas including the Epiphany starts on Christmas Day..
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