Reindeer on the roundabout already!

We went to the Trafford Centre today for some lunch and a bit of shopping. Half the Christmas decorations are already up in the Malls (including the roundabout near one of the carpark entrances).
Only those "fashionable" naff blue fairylights to go up.

 

Poundlands had there Christmas stuff in since mid September xD

 

Poundland?

Do you buy your Christmas presents in there too?


I can't be doing with Christmas this early, I had enough "Christmas" in retail management. Even now I can go in a big store in December and unconsciously start noticing their problem lines.

My wife's quite easy going with the choice of tunes I play either on my tenor sax or my leccy piano, but I get told off if I play this one too early, like I did today!

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPoMw4YMkI"]YouTube - XXX The Christmas Song.[/nomedia]

 

Beccles Xmas lights have been fitted already

 

I think this is called desperation. Retailers know they are going to have a tough time this Christmas and are desperate to get us to spend money, somehow.

Sainsbury's have been selling mince pies (expiry Nov 10) for the last month. Marks and Sparks have been doing a deal that offers Christmas Pudding, Cake or Biscuits, 3 for £10.00. I suppose they are hoping people will buy this stuff...then eat it before Christmas so they will have to buy more, at the usual price.

 

Mince pies are always a good seller in November, I used to order 12packs by the pallet load, but you're right, the first delivery dates always have a sell by date long before Christmas so when we displayed them by the pallet we had to ensure they were all gone before bringing out those that had a post-Christmas date.

What makes me smile is M&S, who when I look at the calandar I know that this year they will have many short-coded lines specifically for consumption on Christmas day, on sale on the Saturday before Christmas.

But they will have reached their "use by" date before Christmas Day.

I'm of the view that "nose and eyes" are often the best judge of freshness. Something can be well within it's sell-by date, but "hanging."

 

I used to love visiting Beccles, as a kid I found the sunken boat near the bridge fascinating. It was there for years. I take it it's gone now!?

 

Very nicely played but I agree with your good lady...............FAR TOO EARLY!!!!!!!!

 

Sainsburys has those golden Easter bunnies on the shelves. Nothing like forward thinking. There was a huge queue of cars trying to get into Toys R Us today - you wouldn't know that we're into the New Austerity. Personally I wish that Christmas consisted of one nice meal and a glass of wine. It goes on for far too long. Last year FIL got very tetchy on account of drinking far too much 'bargain' plonk AND missing his afternoon nap. He thought one of the kids had said something rude but it turned out that he just didn't have his hearing aid in and had misheard something totally innocuous. Roll on Twelfth Night.

PS Apparently the Japanese have taken to Xmas in a big way. A few years back a Japanese department store proudly displayed a cute little Santa ... nailed to a cross.

 

This is true, but it was only a wind-up, it's our favourite hobby.

She'd been struggling looking for a particular Christmas present for someone and had been bangin' on in the car on the way home how she'd got little help from the few staff there were in Debenham's cosmetics dept and she was already fed up with Christmas.
So I played it twice when we got in. I might not get any dinner tonight now. Still, Chelsea are five points clear at the top of the Premier League, so I don't mind if it's only a *Marmite sandwich.

*We don't have any Marmite, it's what I and my youngest son say to our other halves, if they bang on too much about what we want them to give us for our dinner, when we're busy concentrating on something else.

 

The Trafford Centre was heaving, I know it's half-term but even the restaurants were busy and we didn't get there until gone two-thirty.

 

I think if Christmas was mid summer and I could get out and do things I 'd be able to stick it.

I just wonder what idiot decided that it had to happen in December?

I say it should be moved to the 25th June, that way it will be a bit better here and it will **** off the Aussies.

Why the hell do we have to put up with Aussies on our TV every year banging on about how nice it is out here, from some beach or other.
We never see the buggers in June, I think they hibernate.

 

I'm not planning to no I usually go in there for cleaning products

sheesh.