Holiday buzz beginning
American retailers have a fascination with
holidays. Especially the fall and winter holidays.
Ken
Hanson
It is really no wonder why stores load
up their aisles with all the knickknacks and holiday decorations. The money
they see from the sales of these items forces them to wheel out the racks
earlier every year.
My neighborhood supermarket already has
Halloween decorations on display. That is not so bad. Halloween is only
about a month away.
But what really gets me is the fact that
right behind all the costumes and candy and fake pumpkins is a whole heap
of Christmas crap.
And the worst part is that this is only
the beginning. After Thanksgiving and Christmas comes New Years day and
Valentines Day. Talk about raking in the big bucks.
I mean come on; Christmas is still more
than two months away.
Somehow they managed to warp ahead three
months, skip right over Thanksgiving, and are trying to get us to buy all
those damned ornaments before we even have a tree to hang them from.
How can they just ignore the one
holiday that marks the beginning of the official Christmas buying season?
Well, I refuse to buy into that scam, or
to buy any of those damned ornaments or decorations. In fact, I wonít even
start looking for a Halloween costume until the beginning of October.
Ken Hanson is the opinion editor of
the Daily Forty-Niner. |
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