The Blurring of the Holiday's...an article I wrote in 2010

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The Blurrying of the Holiday's
Holiday's Sales,


Something I noticed today, as I was out to pick up a prescription.


While my husband went to fill his prescription for the ailment he currently has. I walked over to a different store to buy a new toothbrush, as it was time for me to replace my toothbrush once again. I try to do this fairly often.



Well anyway, while I was walking around in the Dollar Tree, (that is the store I happened to walk over to, since it is right across from Wal-mart), I noticed something interesting. It was what I would call a "blurring of the holidays".



We have just barely finished celebrating Christmas, and New Year's. Some people may still have some decorations up, that they need to take down and put away. And apparently they may wish to hurry up and do that. Because already the stores have the Valentine cards and candy out, and also just across the aisle is a whole display several in fact of novelties and decorations to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Then over on another wall there are Easter decorations. Also a few items that remind you spring will soon be on the way.



Then at the front of the store in a basket is a whole buggy full of candy canes on clearance because they did not sell before or during the Christmas season that just passed.



I don't know if this has always been the case or not. If it has been I never personally noticed it, but maybe I was just oblivious to all of the commercialization. I also do not remember going to the stores as often as I have since I've been married. So maybe this is just normal procedure to have several different holiday seasons sort of grouped together by a store. Perhaps to increase sales, some people buying ahead, some buying clearance, some buying right on time.



Sometimes I wonder about things like this. I mean it seems to me if the stores are going to have sales for several different holidays maybe it would be easier on the employee's and everyone to just have a separate side room to the stores, that just said, "Holiday's". Then each row could be a different theme or for a different holiday.



It would be similar to the lawn and garden section that is found in most Wal-mart and K-mart stores now.



It would be convenient and helpful to shoppers who wanted to buy ahead, and ready for shoppers who wanted to buy right on time. And it would be less work for the employee's because they would just have to keep the displays up all the time instead of putting them up and taking them down. Every Holiday would be nice and neat and orderly and in its place.



Anyway, I find it interesting that stores are so interested in "relieving" us of our money to the point being they try to have four or five different holidays's being promoted in the stores all at once. It would be easier and more productive in my opinion to just have a "Holiday's Room" to the store's it would make more sense, than the way things are done currently.