Christmas decorations

[pamnez]

I was in a Woolworths shop last Monday and they were selling Christmas decorations, crackers and tinsel etc. Is this a record?

[kags]

Ha! If you get Boomerang - which is a kids satellite channel - they are having a Christmas special weekend this weekend - my kids are already asking when they can write their Christmas lists. It does seem a bit early to see stuff for sale in the shops though - were they playing "Merry Christmas Everyone" by Shaking Stevens??

[flirty41]

I can't say I've seen any decorations around yet - thank goodness! The earliest I've ever spotted any was at the end of August/beginning of September! But you always know when Christmas is on the way, when Argos bring out their Winter catalogue - which is in about a month's time!! Get those lists done now, otherwise everything will be sold out by September!!

[brawburd]

Pamnez, saw the exact same in my local Woolies on Saturday! Wonder if it was the same shop?! There was a full aisle of Christmas stuff.

[Greedyfly]

Stores do tend to sell of old stock during the year - plus pretty much every high street retailer will be having a JULY sale too.

[pamnez]

Brawburd. I was in the White Rose Centre in Leeds.

[coggles]

Kags, my eldest loves boomerang, especially all the pink panther stuff - which is fine by me. What isn't, is that when the adverts come on it's 'Ooh mum/dad, can I have one of those please...and one of those please...and those look great too!'

[Postie]

And why not?. You expect seasonal fruit and veg all year round, the football goes on (and on) throughout the Summer, kids are taken out of school during term time to go on Winter and Summer holidays, Mrs Postie buys her Christmas cards in the January Sales. If Woolies can turn a profit after seeing a hole in the market, good luck to them.

[darth vader]

Firstly "good grief! - first there is the pit, then the abyss, and now we're sinking into it" (thanks McCarthy) Christmas preparations in June? enjoy the summer for god's sake, we get so little of one in the UK anyway! (not even going to think of Christmas until December in the Vader household) secondly Postie - have to disagree: strawberries in june/july, apples in september, nuts in december. salad veg in summer, wintergreens, sprouts in winter. A time and a place for everything in life - appreciated more when it happens then.

[darth vader]

ps that's local market produce not supermarket imported mass-produce. (don't want to start a trade debate here though :-)

[brawburd]

Pamnez, I was in a West of Scotland store!

[number8]

During my impoverished days as a student, I worked in a Safeway store and the non perishable chrimbo stock began arriving in July. Easter eggs arrived just as christmas finished.

[rightoskip]

There is a shop in Stratford-upon-Avon (and also in Edinburgh I think) that sells Christmas decorations all year round. I think Harrods' Christmas department opens around now as well.