Is It Too Early For Stores to Advertise the Holidays?

September 23, 2008

Many of you have already started shopping for holiday gifts or plan on starting to make a dent in your list sometime soon, and the appearance of holiday displays in stores serves as a not-so-subtle reminder to get cracking. Summer is barely behind us and the holidays are still months away, but is it acceptable for stores to have started decorating with their empty, gift-wrapped boxes?

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35 Comments

Nancy Lehr 4 years 33 weeks

I absolute LOVE holidays but in the appropriate amount. I don't see why retailers think that they must put Christmas stuff out before Halloween is over or that they have to put Valentine's out before the first of the year. It's just crazy. It makes me want to shop at the last minute.

GiGiG 4 years 34 weeks

RULE: Nothing for Christmas should begin until Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving). No music, especially no Christmas music, decorations, and all the other stuff until then. I think it should be put into law. Constitution? Anybody with me? :)

RockAndRepublic 4 years 34 weeks

Yeah, it's too early. But they're doing it because everything is going to hell in a hand basket right now. Halloween started in August, in early Sept, i saw a commercial for a Christmas show. Thanksgiving no longer exists.

ffemt1201 4 years 34 weeks

there was a sign that actually apologized for the earlyness, sweetpea?

ffemt1201 4 years 34 weeks

haha, for me, it just doesn't feel like "christmas" shopping until November...I don't know why. But, it seemed as though the Halloween decorations were out earlier than usual this year (mid September in CT).

bellaressa 4 years 34 weeks

Yes.

bellaressa 4 years 34 weeks

Yes.

LoveSarah 4 years 34 weeks

Advertising Christmas stuff in September just makes me burnt out on Christmas before it even becomes December.

Cassandra57 4 years 34 weeks

Get through Halloween? I don't want to see Christmas stuff until Thanksgiving! Retailer greed is beginning to ruin the holidays for me, I'm sick of Christmas by December 1.

Cassandra57 4 years 34 weeks

Get through Halloween? I don't want to see Christmas stuff until Thanksgiving! Retailer greed is beginning to ruin the holidays for me, I'm sick of Christmas by December 1.

Calimie 4 years 34 weeks

It's too early. I think that shops shouldn't advertise before Halloween and please, no street decorations before the 8-10 of December.

sweetpeabrina 4 years 34 weeks

Yes, it's too early. The Macy's by me is a test store for their new set of decorations. I walked in last friday and there was garland and their big red gift boxes everywhere. I almost flipped until I saw a sign that apologized for it being out so early. Hobby Lobby started putting out their christmas decorations back in July.

rabidmoon 4 years 34 weeks

I remember seeing Xmas decorations in the UK start to crop up after Halloween and thinking THAT was too early, simply because they don't have the "buffer" of Thanksgiving stuff on the shelves. Seriously, Christmas is being marketed to death.

californiagirlx7 4 years 34 weeks

I LOVE the holidays, but I hate being rushed into them. I want to enjoy each one at a time. I don't even feel like it's the Halloween season until October comes along. Right now, I'm just enjoying Fall.

pinky tuscadero 4 years 34 weeks

Yeah! I really don't like being rushed into the holiday season. Can't they wait until after Thanksgiving like the good old days?

codewhiz 4 years 34 weeks

I see that artists are already coming out with new Christmas CDs. I've put seven CDs in my Firefox bookmarks so far!

Jude C 4 years 34 weeks

I don't mind the decorations. It's the music that gets me. I used to work in malls for years, and having to listen to Muzak Christmas carols for two months killed all the holiday spirit I once had.

hippiecowgirl 4 years 34 weeks

I do think it's too early. That said, I do get really excited about the holiday season when I see the decorations going up in the stores. It doesn't influence my decision to buy things at that moment. I just love the holidays.