Christmas Over Already?

PlacidCasual

PlacidCasual

PlacidCasual

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I live in South Wales and many of my local retailers began destocking a Christmas lines from Friday.

It seems modern Christmas is all about the build up and is over before the turkey is even cold.

This seems quite a recent change but it is killing the Christmas spirit for me. Boxing Day onwards seems like normal working days and the 12 days is now 12 hours. It used to be much more about meeting family and friends but everyone is either back at work or shopping before you’ve had the leftovers. I feel like I’m swimming against the tide trying to hold off Christmas until Christmas when everyone else has moved on before I’ve started.
 
Well it would make sense for them to remove the Christmas stock on Friday as the next working day week would be the following Thursday when Christmas will be officially over.
 
Working in the backend it does seem like the non-seasonal lines have been moving earlier this year and Christmas stock done and dusted far earlier as well but still busy as pushing the post-Christmas stock already.

I really don't like the way Christmas has become TBH - that break from normal and the atmosphere over the last bit of December could be quite revitalising before heading back into a year of work now it barely feels like a pause before you are back at it. Same with the erosion of the traditional weekend - in the long run we aren't really doing ourselves any favours.
 
The best part of working in retail used to be hoovering up the post-Christmas reductions. But in recent years, as things get tougher and tougher, the aim of the game was always to run out of everything seasonal before closing on Christmas Eve. And if that means running out well before closing on Christmas Eve, that's better than being left with dead stock that has to be shifted at a loss.

I might visit our local Tesco tomorrow evening, just to see if there's anything interesting being dumped before closing, but I'm not expecting to find anything apart from maybe some cheap bread and a load of other scavengers looking disappointed.

There's also recently been a move to stripping all decorations etc. ready for opening on Boxing Day, which makes it feel even more like a ruthless marketing machine moving on to the 'January Sales' and even Valentine's Day, and the first Easter Eggs are probably already landing in stores on otherwise half empty final deliveries.

There are days when quitting work to become a carer feels like the daftest of many daft things I've done. But at this time of year, as the Christmas panic turns to the traditional 'save money, go home early, sales are down!' despair, I miss it approximately not at all! :-)
 
Let's face it the adverts started the moment fireworks night ended, it's ridiculous.

Was saying to the Mrs earlier it's ridiculous how the whole thing feels so forced, cook food ready to throw in the bin because it's tradition, sit around doing nothing for days because 'family time'.

Not being funny but I've got stuff to do, my time off is limited and I've got loads of jobs around the house that need a few hours work rather than sit watching **** TV instead
 
It's all because retail starts xmas too early. I honestly get annoyed and fed up with it in the end.

No one should even mention xmas until December. We had stores with trees, decs, and 'special offers' on at Halloween!
 
Not paid full price for anything this Xmas, feels like the whole month has been a sale

It wasn't that long ago when companies would tow the line and not reduce prices until Boxing day. Online and discount retailers seem to have injected some much needed competition.
 
I noticed this when nipping in B&M earlier - wanted to pick up some warm glow christmas lights that had a controller with memory.

Early December B&M must have had about 8-10 aisles of Christmas decorations and Christmas gifts. Went in today and that's all been shrunk down to half an aisle.
 
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