Is there a law as to how early retailers can start advertising Christmas? It gets earlier every year.?

Question

You ask why? Well I have to decorate the dang place and it p..me off.

Answer 1

of course not, that would not be free enterprise. here in Brooksville Florida we have a christmas store open all year. all they sell is christmas stuff.

Answer 2

No there isn't. Freedom of speech says they can advertise Christmas year round if they want.
But any store that starts advertising too soon for my tastes doesn't get any of my business.
The same goes for stores that have Holiday Sales instead of Christmas sales.
I buy Christmas presents, not Holiday presents.
If the stores want to be politically correct, they can get their money from the Anti-Christmas crowd.
I guess that is the law of giving the customer what he wants.
And I vote with my debit card.

Answer 3

As far as I know there is unfortunately no such law, but think there shoudl be, especially after I went into a shop towards the end of August this year and was shocked to find that they had started putting out christmas decorations for sale.

Answer 4

No laws and may it remain so.

It's a false holiday to begin with. It being commercialized is just the exposure of how shallow it's meaning truly is.

If it went back to being called the winter solstice instead of all this Santa/Jesus's Birthday nonsense, then perhaps the significance of it then would cause companies to pause on whoring it out as they do now.

Since that wont happen, get used to it.

Answer 5

I don't think there is.
It does seem to get earlier, as soon as Halloween is over Christmas comes out in force.
Our local shop puts its Easter Eggs out on display on New Years day.It has become a bit of a local tradition and everyone looks out for it.
As soon as Christmas is over then Valentines day will start and then Mothers day and then Easter. You get a rest then until Fathers day and didn't they try Grandparents day a few years back?? Then the kids go back to school and lo and behold its Halloween and Christmas again.

It is one long round of card and present opportunities, with anniversaries and birthdays on the side.

Answer 6

The normal time for all retailers to start christmas stuff is right around chrisman, most wait until after thanksgiving, but there is nothing stoping them from starting earlier.

Answer 7

I really doubt there's a "law" enforcing this. I worked in retail management for 3 years, and since the holiday season can bring in almost 40% of sales for the year, they usually started getting ready for it in early September. Crazy, but that's how retail is.

Answer 8

No - but there should be. The only ones that should be exempt are catalogue companies, who have a winter & summer season.

When you consider Easter only gets 3-4 months' worth of exposure, & Christmas gets almost half the year, it's both unfair & unnecessary.

Answer 9

classic case of furnish and insist. We consistently instruct that we will settle for merchandising and marketing/categorised classified ads effectively for something, no longer in basic terms Christmas. so as that they fill the call for. in terms of Christmas this is worse admittedly and could proceed to start till now and till now each and each year as long as we as clientele come to a style to flow out Christmas procuring in August.

Answer 10

Im soooo with u! I noticed Xmas decorations coming in to Walmart here in Nebraska in the middle of Ocxtober! I though OH MY GOD! Thats like in the summer- they have winter clothes and in the winter- summer clothes! Kinda crazy!

Answer 11

Absolutely none. Brass nerve is all it takes to set out Christmas decorations even before Halloween has come and gone.