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  • #1

    It has begun...

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! It's TOO SOON! But alas, we are now getting Christmas stuff in already. I mean seriously? It's not even freaking HALLOWEEN yet and Christmas stuff is coming in like crazy and getting shipped out just as crazily! Soon it will be Christmas YEAR ROUND! When Valentine's Day gets here there will already be Christmas trees for sale in stores. Why must we be cursed with this earlier and earlier? It's a conspiracy of the highest order! The evil Santa Claus and his minions want to take over the Holiday world! WE MUST UNITE AND DEFEND!!


    Also I shouldn't make topics when I've had too much caffeine...
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    Quoth Bramble View Post
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! It's TOO SOON! But alas, we are now getting Christmas stuff in already. I mean seriously? It's not even freaking HALLOWEEN yet and Christmas stuff is coming in like crazy and getting shipped out just as crazily! Soon it will be Christmas YEAR ROUND! When Valentine's Day gets here there will already be Christmas trees for sale in stores. Why must we be cursed with this earlier and earlier? It's a conspiracy of the highest order! The evil Santa Claus and his minions want to take over the Holiday world! WE MUST UNITE AND DEFEND!!


    Also I shouldn't make topics when I've had too much caffeine...
    At the aptly named Christmas Tree Shops you can buy christmas ornaments [in addition to lots of other crap] ALL year long. I was in one a few months ago and they had the spiffy miniature predecorated 3 foot tall christmas trees on sale.
    EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.

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    • #3
      Oh pah-leeze. I've been getting swamped with Christmas shit for at least the past two weeks.
      Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

      "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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      • #4
        Christmas stuff in September? Bah - when I worked in the warehouse pricing product for a certain Tire Store in Canada, we'd start getting the Christmas product in June/July. Nothing makes you anticipate the holidays more than individually pricing (this was before UPC scanning) multiple boxes full of thousands of baubles, icicles, bells, ribbon, etc while sweating in 100 degree weather in an un-air-condioned warehouse.
        Last edited by DeltaSierra; 09-05-2009, 09:57 PM.
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        • #5
          Been getting random Christmas stuffs since about the end of July/beginning of August. There's a small joke between a couple of employees that, with the Halloween and Christmas together, it looks like something out of "Nightmare Before Christmas".

          There's a couple of stores that specialize in Christmas year-round, I love those places because I can get Snow Babies there.
          Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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          • #6
            I wonder if corporate higher-ups think that lengthening the Christmas shopping season will increase revenue because of the crappy economy?? It'll be interesting to see what the numbers are like come January...purely from an economic recession/recovery standpoint.
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            • #7
              Quoth Android Kaeli View Post
              There's a small joke between a couple of employees that, with the Halloween and Christmas together, it looks like something out of "Nightmare Before Christmas".
              O/T and a bit geeky, but here's another one about Christmas and Halloween. Programmers can't tell the difference between them, because 31 OCT is the same as 25 DEC.

              Has to do with number bases - numeric constants can be specified as base 2 (binary, abbreviated BIN), base 8 (octal, abbreviated OCT), decimal (base 10, what we use every day, abbreviated DEC), and hexadecimal (base 16, abbreviated HEX). 31 OCT is 3x8 + 1, while 25 DEC is 2x10 + 5 - same number, expressed in different ways.
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              • #8
                Quoth thegiraffe View Post
                I wonder if corporate higher-ups think that lengthening the Christmas shopping season will increase revenue because of the crappy economy?? It'll be interesting to see what the numbers are like come January...purely from an economic recession/recovery standpoint.
                This would not be the case at the swamp. Christmas stuff is coming in at pretty much the same time it has for the past few years, and will be going up at the same time it has for the past few years.

                Our Christmas stuff comes in two waves. The first is all the trees, ornaments, lights and decorative stuff, and it goes up around the third week of September or so. Cards, wrap, bags, and a few outdoor decorative things go up after Halloween is done, and should start to trickle in sometime in October.

                As far as sales numbers go, I bet this is going to be a bad, bad year. Corporate has us forecast down about 8% from last year, and last year was quite a bit worse than 2007. But bad winter weather on some big sales days was probably responsible for that, and also the recession doesn't seem to be hitting my city quite as hard as other nearby cities.
                Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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                • #9
                  Our Halloween flat is halfway done, with the last of lawn & garden in the aisle behind. I don't know when Xmas will start coming in, but I do know the Halloween flat will, at some point, be ringed with Christmas lights. Yeah, witches aglow in the cheery bask of reindeer lawn displays.
                  Last edited by Food Lady; 09-07-2009, 02:13 AM.
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                  • #10
                    Quoth wolfie View Post
                    Programmers can't tell the difference between them, because 31 OCT is the same as 25 DEC.
                    As a programmer...

                    I find this...

                    The best laugh I've had all day!

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                    • #11
                      Quoth wolfie View Post
                      O/T and a bit geeky, but here's another one about Christmas and Halloween. Programmers can't tell the difference between them, because 31 OCT is the same as 25 DEC.
                      Such base humor...

                      The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
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                      • #12
                        So is this where I mention there being 11 kinds of people in this world...?

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                        • #13
                          The variant I know of '11 people in the world' is actually '10'.

                          Those who know binary, and those who don't.

                          What's the '11' variant?
                          Seshat's self-help guide:
                          1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
                          2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
                          3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                          4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

                          "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth wolfie View Post
                            O/T and a bit geeky, but here's another one about Christmas and Halloween. Programmers can't tell the difference between them, because 31 OCT is the same as 25 DEC.
                            You've warmed my geeky heart.
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                            • #15
                              Quoth Seshat View Post
                              The variant I know of '11 people in the world' is actually '10'.

                              Those who know binary, and those who don't.

                              What's the '11' variant?
                              Probably the same punchline, but in this case, the narrator does not know binary.
                              To right the countless wrongs of our days... We shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise...Oh, what a wonderful world such would be...

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