The day after Halloween I went to Wal-Mart to buy up all of the clearance Halloween candy, makeup, costumes, glitter, basically anything that was a good buy. I was surprised to find when I got there that out of the five aisles that were full of Halloween stuff before, was now down to around two and a half. I went through the aisles and picked up some of everything. I was even more surprised to find that in the Halloween aisles that were empty, had been converted to Christmas aisles and instead of Halloween candy, they were already being filled with Christmas Tree shaped Reeses and more.
What happened to Thanksgiving? You know, that holiday at the end of November. I am thinking they should be selling goods for that instead of the holiday more than a month AFTER Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving itself was designated to be the fourth Thursday in November because the government though it would be a good day to set in regards to Christmas. That way stores wouldn't start selling Christmas merchandise BEFORE Thanksgiving because they thought it would be rude.
President Roosevelt was the one that set Thanksgiving's date. Before then it fell on November 30th and stores didn't like it because it only left 24 days for shoppers. Roosevelt was also the president during the Great Depression so the stores wanted to get the most "bang for their buck" and give the shoppers the most days they could. Hasn't anyone ever thought of how Black Friday is the day AFTER Thanksgiving and its one of the most shopped on days of the year because everyone then starts to get ready for Christmas (unless you are one of those super organized people that start Christmas shopping in February.)
If Wal-Mart knew all of that, why would they already be getting ready for Christmas? I guess the part I was confused most about at Wal-Mart was that they didn't even have any Thanksgiving merchandise. It was only Christmas stuff. I mean I might have missed it even though I went up and down almost every aisle in that section.
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