I work in retail related to this situation, it isnt just shoppers annoyed, trust me. Workers are also annoyed we got easter stock before christmas day even, many shops likely still have loads of christmas stock they are struggling to get rid of while suddenly having all “this” sitting in the stock room now too which they need to get out of the way.
The first drops of Easter stock has always been the second week of December, at least for the last decade. Shell eggs then follow around the 26th.
Stores have seasonal shelving already set up. Changing it back for 4 weeks makes no sense and people do buy it.
Why everyone gets outraged every year I don’t know.
This is not new!
In the early-mid 90’s I worked at a distribution centre, we were sending out creme eggs and mini eggs to stores before Christmas.
As the 1980’s joke goes: How do you know it’s Christmas? The Easter eggs are in the shops.
Christmas starts in August, Easter starts on 26 December and Indeterminate Summer Event starts in May. It’s in the bible, I think.
The only real solution is to have a new festival between Christmas and Easter for the Seasonal aisle.
Mid February would be great but I think there’s something there, maybe we should be pushing Mardi Gras (renaming Shrove Tuesday). Little pancake gifts in paper pancakes?
Or Chinese New Year, I could see that having some impact.
Taj Mahotsav is one from India I hadn’t heard of.
Basically anything but another cheap chocolate covered holiday right after the previous one.
Raise the minimum cocoa solids requirement and lower the tax on Taj Mahotsav goods.
Surely a Creme Egg has gone from being a seasonal item to an everyday chocolate, why is it seasonal? Cause its an egg? Is that the only reason?
Supermarkets are happy to stock easter eggs as soon as Christmas is gone but heaven forbid they have any eggs left the day after Easter.
They’re always in supermarkets on 27th December, this isn’t new.
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I work in retail related to this situation, it isnt just shoppers annoyed, trust me. Workers are also annoyed we got easter stock before christmas day even, many shops likely still have loads of christmas stock they are struggling to get rid of while suddenly having all “this” sitting in the stock room now too which they need to get out of the way.
The first drops of Easter stock has always been the second week of December, at least for the last decade. Shell eggs then follow around the 26th.
Stores have seasonal shelving already set up. Changing it back for 4 weeks makes no sense and people do buy it.
Why everyone gets outraged every year I don’t know.
This is not new!
In the early-mid 90’s I worked at a distribution centre, we were sending out creme eggs and mini eggs to stores before Christmas.
As the 1980’s joke goes: How do you know it’s Christmas? The Easter eggs are in the shops.
Christmas starts in August, Easter starts on 26 December and Indeterminate Summer Event starts in May. It’s in the bible, I think.
The only real solution is to have a new festival between Christmas and Easter for the Seasonal aisle.
Mid February would be great but I think there’s something there, maybe we should be pushing Mardi Gras (renaming Shrove Tuesday). Little pancake gifts in paper pancakes?
Or Chinese New Year, I could see that having some impact.
Taj Mahotsav is one from India I hadn’t heard of.
Basically anything but another cheap chocolate covered holiday right after the previous one.
Raise the minimum cocoa solids requirement and lower the tax on Taj Mahotsav goods.
Surely a Creme Egg has gone from being a seasonal item to an everyday chocolate, why is it seasonal? Cause its an egg? Is that the only reason?
Supermarkets are happy to stock easter eggs as soon as Christmas is gone but heaven forbid they have any eggs left the day after Easter.
They’re always in supermarkets on 27th December, this isn’t new.