Tesco think the Christmas season is here

[Nottseagull]

Went to Tesco Extra last night and found a whole aisle labelled 'seasonal'. It had small posters of Christmas trees hanging alongside the Christmas puddings and rum sauce. Still, the large tins of Quality Street/Celebrations/Heroes/Roses etc. were all only £5. I suspect many of these tins will be scoffed well before Dec 25th!

 

[16bha]

Standard procedure..Xmas goods go on in Sept, the Easter Eggs in Jan, the BBQ straight after Easter!! No bloody escape!

 

[Foolg]

Yep, I'm working in sainsburys part time just inbetween studies and whilest ticketing this morning came across a number of Christmas products.

Bloody ridiculous, but it's happening more and more now.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Only 14 weeks to Christmas.

 

[BensGrandad]

In the papers Cadburys have reduced the contents of their tins of Roses down to 860gms or thereabout from 975gms last year. Apparently it equates to about 11 or 12 sweets.

 

[JCL]

Shops buy Christmas stock starting in February at the Spring Fair, ready for the next Christmas…

Card Factory, that well known emporium of cheaper than cheap greetings tat, were selling Christmas cards in July….

and the perennial winner of the "Cor Blimey I don't believe it" award for the first Christmas Mail order catalogue, Diabetes UK, send their catalogue out mid/late July!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Only 14 weeks to Christmas.

Don't you start, FFS!

 

[BensGrandad]

A customer at my pub in Guildford was a manager for Martin's and she used to have her Easter eggs delivered during the week starting Christmas Eve.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Horrendous. I used to work at Specsavers in Devon, my friend was a Director there.

The back office girls started planning Christmas early October and had everything done by the start of November, other than the fresh food. Enjoy Autumn for what it is!

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

In the papers Cadburys have reduced the contents of their tins of Roses down to 860gms or thereabout from 975gms last year. Apparently it equates to about 11 or 12 sweets.

Remember when they used to be 2KG?

 

[Djmiles]

I work at the Coop, and we've had most our Xmas stock in for a couple of weeks. Madness.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

santaaaaaaaaa claussssss is coming to townnnn!!!

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Pretty standard practice, most retailers have seasonal aisles and therefore after the back to school period there is little else until late October and Halloween which won't sell until closer to the date so shops would rather fill with Christmas stock than have empty shelves. It also means they have more room in the stockroom and this helps as there isn't then a rush to supply stores with thousands of items in a few weeks before Christmas - Post Christmas sales its filled by easter eggs etc because there is little else to bulk fill that space

That said i was still surprised yesterday when i saw someone taking an artificial Christmas tree home

 

[trueblue]

It's a joke. It actually spoils Xmas IMHO as everyone's sick of it by the time it arrives. Would be much better if retailers just kicked things off on Dec 1st. Still plenty of time.