Originally Posted by
Chantel
It's really starting to chap me seeing posts online about people complaining that Christmas merchandise is going up in October. (Not directed at anybody here! Just in general!)
Do you know how much crap there is go get out? Do you know how long it takes to basically completely rearrange large portions of a store to fit all the incoming holiday stuff? And then to put signs and shelf labels up? As soon as you think you've got it all up, more comes in on another delivery. And then you have to rearrange everything already on the sales floor to fit it all... again.
Basically, from mid October, overworked and underpaid employees spend their whole shifts every day working their butts off to get it all out and pretty so that in November when you're feeling the Christmas spirit, it's all out and ready for you. If we didn't start in October, it would never be ready in time. There's just too much to do.
We are not 6'2 'elves' named Buddy and this is not Gimbals. We cannot magically transform a store overnight from Halloween spooks to Holiday Magic. They have to overlap. Sorry that this ruins your life.
Next time you're in a store and want to make a comment about how it's wrong in one way or another to have Christmas things out before [Halloween, Remembrance Day, November, whatever]... do us all a favor and zip that lip. Someone's been working their patoot off and all they have to show for it is customers making snarky comments and glitter scratching up their retinas, in their hair, in their cleavage...