Don't worry Bootneck You have just said what lots of us already have said on here over the years..
I hate it too I went into a card shop for a Birthday card end of august and for 2 years running now they have taken all the birthday cards out and replaced them with Christmas cards..Flaming christmas cards for christs sakes at the end of August, a full 4 months before christmas.
I had such a massive go at the staff in there I thought they were going to call security to come and take me out of the shop, there excuse was don't have a go at us we are just the staff and we are only doing what we have been told, I said If I don't have a go at someone then it will never filter back down to the idiot who is telling you to do this..I wasn't the only one in there that was absolutely flabbergasted by what I was witnessing..
As I say they have done the same thing 2 years in a row so my first rant went largely ignored, so I went in again and had another rant at the staff over the same thing, it was 82F outside the shopping centre and they had cards with snow and cosy fireside pictures to warm your cockles on display and everyone was walking around in shorts and T-shirts, it was just absolutely ridiculous, you had to see it to believe it honestly!
Told them all I would never set foot inside that shop again, and told everyone I knew how ridiculous that shop and its staff were.
It seems they get one moneymaking fad out of the way and its in with the next one as quick as possible, Halloween is going the same way its now the 3rd biggest moneyspinner for the shops out of them all, yet 20 years ago it was nowhere on that scale, it didn't even register!
Rant over and sorry to all who didn't have ear muffs on..