Now that I work in retail, I understand better some of what drives this. For example, my store has a seasonal section. All the Halloween stuff was there. But we’re not going to rearrange the entire store just to put some permanent items there for the 3-4 weeks from Halloween to Thanksgiving, and there isn’t enough Thanksgiving stuff to justify having the space devoted to it alone for those weeks - so Christmas stuff goes in.
The seasons, according to American retail: Valentine’s Day, Easter, Summer (i.e. bbq/swim/camping/outdoor dining)+Memorial Day+Independence Day, Back to School, Halloween, Thanksgiving+Christmas. When one of those comes down, the next one takes over. Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and New Year’s get a few items at the appropriate time but don’t take over the whole area. I feel like I’ve missed one though.
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Thanksgiving stuff was on sale in my grocery store on Halloween. It’s pretty normal to see Christmas stuff the day after Halloween, but I saw it around before that too! 
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It also takes a while to get all the product set up. When I worked at Target people would be all nasty when we were setting up for the next season. But then heaven forbid if you don’t have it all out when the urge to shop hits them. No matter what you do the shoppers yell at and blame the employees. And no, stock people aren’t the ones who do the ordering. 
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Or set the prices. I always loved it when people would yell at us because their value meal price increased. “Dude. I just work here. That’s way above my pay grade.”
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I was just going thru my supplies and realized I have almost everything I need for Thanksgiving dinner. 
All that will be left to get is the last-minute things. Cheese ball ingredients, crackers and the dessert.
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Yup, that too. And it also can’t arrive all at once, so especially this time of year, stuff is arriving constantly and the back room is full of stuff, so the sooner we can get it out on the sales floor, the better.
I get why it annoys people, but it’s sort of just how big retail works now.
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They are referring to The Handmaid’s Tale cosplay (red gown + white bonnet). It’s a fictional work glorified by proChoice advocates whenever protesting abortion regulation.
At the place where I work, We started selling our Christmas inventory on Halloween night. Well at least that’s when we started moving it from the back to the sales floor.
Fairly certain Mira was being sarcastic per the emoji that you didn’t include.
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I almost 100% use my phone to post here. I use the swipe style of typing on my phone, which means I’m relying a lot on autocompletion. The other day I realized I’ve successfully trained it (without even trying): it will autocomplete Stormwind, Orgrimmar, Northrend, and Dalaran. I’m so proud.
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The voice of AOL’s “You’ve Got Mail!” has passed away. RIP Elwood Edwards.
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Phoning it in with my guild tonight, I think.
cough cough Sorry, I couldn’t make it to our scheduled raid time. cough
Currently too busy setting up the PS5 Pro right now.
And then of course I get pulled into a call to deliberate and ultimately cancel tonight’s raid anyway. A win for the Pro either way.
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Just got home from work and was scrolling through the forums, catching up on a few threads, when I glance at the suggested threads at the bottom of the page and see some big numbers for unread posts. Apparently, I have my TL3 back.
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Hmm Mass effect tv in the works that could be interesting. Also mcaulky culkin is gona be in s2 of fallout.
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Spending the night relocating guild banks of battle pets is not what I had planned to do tonight.
But with those glitching out now, I can’t take a chance on losing them (well most of them – won’t cry if the bajillion Toxic Wastelings and Sinister Squashlings run away, lol).
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This evening’s going to be fun, I have opening night of a community theatre show I’ve been working deck chief on, and then I have to blitz home for first guild Firelands raid.
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Well, that was a fun two hours… Spilled a soda on my really nice, really expensive aRGB keyboard. Popped all the key caps off and cleaned the whole thing. My ambition and motivation is renewed (and my desire not to repeat this lesson), so I guess I’m finally gonna swap out desks on (my) weekend. The new desk has a cupholder mounted below desktop height.
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Cups that can’t be spilled are best things ever. I use travel cups or water bottles. I don’t tend to spill things easily, but I have cats.
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