Michael1942's Blog

Retailers in an attempt to get an edge on consumer’s wallets have created a holiday season unlike the Holiday seasons many of us grew up with. The new season as coined by an associate is :”Hallothanksxmas”. This is due the influx of holiday merchandise and the setting up of holiday displays weeks to months ahead of the actual event.  Even now the Halloween show is being put in place, in 45 days the change to Thanksgiving will appear, then finally the biggy: Xmas (or Christmas). What ever happened to the anticipation time? that defined time between the Holidays when you could exhale and prepare mentally for the next one?  That time was usurped by the large retailer’s in search for more revenue while convincing (advertising) the buyers to come early and shop. This brought another phenomenon: the midnight door buster sales, the early AM sales and finally Black Friday sales. Black Friday just means the Friday of the year where many businesses make enough profit to be in the Black for the year. The current  retail climate leaves us no time to breathe between Holidays which we so desperately need. To cap it all off we have lost out on traditional foods and we have in its place “Turducken- This is a turkey stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken layered with dressing. The initial Thanksgiving observers would be appalled and possibly puzzled. In their time it would have been any or all of these fowl depending on which was preferred. What next? Yams stuffed with Broccoli, peas and carrots mixed with mashed potatoes or the ultimate jellied cranberry stuffed with whole cranberries. How about pumpkin/apple/peach pie? Enough already!

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