What do you think about Christmas adverts, decorations, ect in November?
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[QUOTE=Ardosos;46508232]The mall I work at is starting black friday sales on 6PM thanksgiving day, yay for me.[/QUOTE]
I remember getting up on Thanksgiving day at 7 am, getting home at 10 pm, and having to stay up until 3 AM to head to work until noon with no holiday pay. Fucking 27 hour Thanksgiving insanity.
I'm just glad that we don't open any later on Thanksgiving or Black Friday than usual, and that I have opening shifts instead of close, which are later than usual.
I personally would rather they wait until the end of Thanksgiving to do the Christmas ads but it's not like I can do much about that. Marketing is marketing.
The early advertising doesn't really bug me, I love the atmosphere and all the color that comes with it. Black Friday kinda irritates me but that's more of the "Everything cheap! NEED TV NOW!" mentality that comes with it.
I usually set up the tree and lights at least a week before Thanksgiving. My parents did it that way when I was a kid.
Besides, I like to make my house look like some terrifying horror show of green and red. Makes the neighbors wonder how much I spent on lights this year.
I don't particularly take an interest in any of the adverstising other than the usual John Lewis/Marks & Spencers etc type adverts, which all have a little story in them.
Of course, there's Fenwick's window up here which is a Christmas thing.
I also love having the decorations up in my house, but I won't put them up until aroundabout the first weekend of December.
It's just more commercialization. I get it. Businesses trying to make that dolla dolla.
My chief complaint is when businesses stay open on thanksgiving and christmas day. They're ruining a sacred time when people just want to eat and relax with their family. What you give for those profits is your soul. I wonder if the bosses of these companies work on thanksgiving or christmas too, just like their employees, or are they taking the easy life?
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[QUOTE=cqbcat;46554106]It's just more commercialization. I get it. Businesses trying to make that dolla dolla.
My chief complaint is when businesses stay open on thanksgiving and christmas day. They're ruining a sacred time when people just want to eat and relax with their family. What you give for those profits is your soul. I wonder if the bosses of these companies work on thanksgiving or christmas too, just like their employees, or are they taking the easy life?[/QUOTE]
I agree. My friend has to work from 4pm-2am ON Thanksgiving.
I saw Christmas decorations in late october, in Las Vegas.
LATE OCTOBER.
As zingly said above me, I like the atmosphere it brings. It makes things around the store more "cheerful" if you ask me. Its stores that have thanksgiving/xmas stuff during October that bug me.
[QUOTE=cqbcat;46554106]My chief complaint is when businesses stay open on thanksgiving and christmas day. They're ruining a sacred time when people just want to eat and relax with their family. What you give for those profits is your soul. I wonder if the bosses of these companies work on thanksgiving or christmas too, just like their employees, or are they taking the easy life?[/QUOTE]
As someone who works in a grocery store, I know where you're coming from. However, my store was only open till 4pm (I worked 5am-4pm). And I think that was reasonable. The whole selling point to Thanksgiving is the dinner, which I was home an hour early for. Considering up until the actual dinner you're just cooking the stuff all day so I think working and earning holiday pay during that part of the day isn't a bad deal. But that's just me, and I'm sure other stores are different with their times, etc, etc~
Always had a soft-spot for holiday radio. Like traveling back in time to the 50s.
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