Post by rialvestro on Nov 20, 2010 18:37:39 GMT -5
Try not to take the title literally. This topic is actually about early Holiday Sales. I just used that title because I just bought Christmas Carol in November.
So here's the two sides to the debate.
For: In the old days when Holiday shopping actually occurred in the month the Holiday fell on stores would often have left over merchandise after the Holiday and people didn't have enough time to get all their shopping done on time. This lead to allot of last min. shopping and stores loosing money on after holiday sales. (After the holidays end everything is marked down in price and so the stores don't get their money back for the stuff.)
Against: As it is now, Holiday merchandising is being put on the shelves as much as two months in advance and people are still waiting till the last min. and stores are still having left over stock to sell after the Holidays are over but it's not quite as bad as it was before.
An example of this is that two weeks after Halloween this year my local Wal Mart still had two shopping carts full of Halloween costumes and decorations marked at 75% off their original price and they started selling Halloween stuff in August.
Personally I think the trick is not to sell earlier but to sell less. People just don't think about the holidays that far in advance so selling stuff earlier doesn't really help that side of things. But sell less stuff may fix the problem of left over stalk. Plus anything that isn't food can just be stored away and sold next year rather than marking down the price.
So what do you think?
So here's the two sides to the debate.
For: In the old days when Holiday shopping actually occurred in the month the Holiday fell on stores would often have left over merchandise after the Holiday and people didn't have enough time to get all their shopping done on time. This lead to allot of last min. shopping and stores loosing money on after holiday sales. (After the holidays end everything is marked down in price and so the stores don't get their money back for the stuff.)
Against: As it is now, Holiday merchandising is being put on the shelves as much as two months in advance and people are still waiting till the last min. and stores are still having left over stock to sell after the Holidays are over but it's not quite as bad as it was before.
An example of this is that two weeks after Halloween this year my local Wal Mart still had two shopping carts full of Halloween costumes and decorations marked at 75% off their original price and they started selling Halloween stuff in August.
Personally I think the trick is not to sell earlier but to sell less. People just don't think about the holidays that far in advance so selling stuff earlier doesn't really help that side of things. But sell less stuff may fix the problem of left over stalk. Plus anything that isn't food can just be stored away and sold next year rather than marking down the price.
So what do you think?
