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Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: Titanica Date: October 23, 2018, 9:55 am
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[quote]As annoying as it is for customers, believe me, it's even
more so for retail employees. I say this as someone who worked
retail for a few Christmases, and someone whose daughter
currently works at a store.
As an employee, you get an endless stream of customers coming in
and complaining about Christmas merchandise and decorations
being up too early. As if the lowly store employee is
responsible for that or has any influence at all with the
higher-ups. You get Christmas forced down your throat from at
least the weekend before Thanksgiving, if not earlier. And
whereas the customers can leave if they don't like it, the
employees can't.[/quote]
Are the employees also required to wear daft festive hats etc as
well? That's been a thing over here for a few years now; in
December all the staff in many supermarkets and other shops wear
Santa hats or Rudolph antlers. I feel so sorry for them; only
the threat of sacking and starvation would make me do that. (And
the music, dear god, the music . . . over and over "Here it is,
Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun". Not in this Tesco,
they aren't.)
[/quote]
Yes. I got into work one day and was greeted with a stack of
goofy Christmas-themed headbands, and told that we all had to
wear one of them every day until the holiday. I hated it. Felt
ridiculous, and left each shift with what felt like permanent
indentations in the sides of my head.
And yes, the music. There is no shortage of Christmas music out
there, but for some reason, the stores use loops that are much
shorter than the ones they use the rest of the year. Which
means, yes, you hear the same songs over and over. And over.
And over. There were a few songs I'd never heard before, and to
this day, whenever I hear one of them it brings me right back to
the sales floor.
#Post#: 16922--------------------------------------------------
Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: lmyrs Date: October 23, 2018, 12:12 pm
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[quote author=STiG link=topic=755.msg16901#msg16901
date=1540304472]
[quote author=Aleko link=topic=755.msg16895#msg16895
date=1540301068]
I once lost my furry winter gloves over Christmas, and in early
January I walked the length of Oxford Street in London being
sneered at by multiple shop assistants with 'Winter gloves,
madam? Dear me no, we stop stocking those at the end of
November.') In one of the great shopping streets of the world,
in midwinter, I couldn't get any kind of winter gloves at all.
[/quote]
I was visiting my friend in California in February. It was 70+
degrees out. I was wearing shorts and t-shirts and I ran out of
sunscreen. I went to buy some and they didn't stock it. 'It's
a seasonal item', they said. Seriously? I can wear shorts
almost year round here and sunscreen is a seasonal item? I
always made sure to have a full bottle going to visit her after
that.
[/quote]
That's crazy. I can buy sunscreen at Shoppers Drug Mart in the
middle of the Canadian prairie in December when we get less than
9 hours of daylight. I'd be shocked to not find it in
California!!
#Post#: 16924--------------------------------------------------
Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: STiG Date: October 23, 2018, 12:22 pm
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I'm in Canada, too, and have no problem getting sunscreen year
round. Though I can't get the bargain pack of 3 at Costco year
round. ;D
It is sometimes cool in late May, early June in California due
to ocean influences. Try buying a sweatshirt...
#Post#: 17018--------------------------------------------------
Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: Thitpualso Date: October 24, 2018, 10:56 am
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Try buying a swimsuit in NYC, in July.
#Post#: 17044--------------------------------------------------
Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: VorFemme Date: October 24, 2018, 2:29 pm
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I still remember trying to get Ambrosia Hino (DD) to go shopping
at the end of season sale on swimsuits in July one year. She
was on the swim team and would need a spare suit or two to wear
to practice in. She didn't want to go.
The practice pool was over-chlorinated due to a crack in it (to
keep it cleaner) and due to the high bather load - so it "ate"
her swimsuit that fall. In October, there are no swimsuits for
sale - so I got to pull out my pattern stash (yes, I have
multiple swimsuit patterns) and some fabric (yeah - I had some
of that, too) and tell her to pick out which pattern and at
least one fabric that she liked. I made the "first draft" in a
different fabric (still good for practice) and the one that she
liked best in her first choice of fabric.
Apparently there had been so many swimsuits in the stores during
"the season" that she found it hard to believe that they would
all be gone...
#Post#: 17061--------------------------------------------------
Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: lakey Date: October 24, 2018, 4:35 pm
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All of this is a good reason to shop online. I have learned that
if I want a Thanksgiving decorative item in November, I can
still find it in November.
#Post#: 17124--------------------------------------------------
Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: TootsNYC Date: October 25, 2018, 12:55 pm
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[quote author=Thitpualso link=topic=755.msg17018#msg17018
date=1540396594]
Try buying a swimsuit in NYC, in July.
[/quote]
Thank God for sporting-goods stores, and people who swim for
exercise.
#Post#: 17444--------------------------------------------------
Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: pwv Date: October 28, 2018, 3:58 pm
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Years and years ago I went to Hawaii over Christmas and went to
their Sears (or some major dept store) to buy a light weight
Hawaiian print dress to wear while I was there. I had a hard
time finding one -- the store was full of corduroy and wool and
other wintery type clothing.
#Post#: 17456--------------------------------------------------
Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: VorFemme Date: October 28, 2018, 7:37 pm
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[quote author=pwv link=topic=755.msg17444#msg17444
date=1540760334]
Years and years ago I went to Hawaii over Christmas and went to
their Sears (or some major dept store) to buy a light weight
Hawaiian print dress to wear while I was there. I had a hard
time finding one -- the store was full of corduroy and wool and
other wintery type clothing.
[/quote]
I am assuming that the stores in Hawaii didn't usually sell much
in the way of wool & corduroy?
I grew up in Texas - snow fall of 1/4" once a year might be all
we'd see for a year or four...unless we left West Texas to go
see family - then we might see twice that. Until the year
Grandma & Grandpa Mom'sParents were living in Oklahoma, ten
miles from the Kansas border. Grandma told us later that the
last of the snow under the bushes in their yard didn't melt
until the middle of May...it was epic winter for my siblings &
I. Aunt the Youngest (last year of high school?) was not
impressed - she still had six months in that town before high
school graduation and she'd been watching it snow for weeks.
#Post#: 17626--------------------------------------------------
Re: I Get It Now. I Really Get It.
By: NewHomeowner Date: October 30, 2018, 6:50 am
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[quote author=lakey link=topic=755.msg16703#msg16703
date=1540092310]
It's especially annoying if you need to buy something for autumn
or Thanksgiving and it is difficult to find much at all, much
less a variety of choices, because everything has been pushed
aside for Christmas stuff.
[/quote]
I live in a large metro area where the traffic is horrible at
the best of times - the holiday season traffic is bad enough to
drive the holiday spirit out of Santa himself! I try to prepare
for the season by stocking up on anything I might need for the
next 3 months, because going out to buy so much as a toothbrush
is a soul-sucking experience. The traffic, the crowds, and most
of all, the rudeness!
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