Yo Retailers! You are ruining my summer!

[grasswire]

Putting school supplies out on July 5 and gutting the stores of every last frippin evidence of summer living is a real, real, real, real, real downer!

Stop it!

Apparently the goal is to eradicate all the vestiges of happy summer by mid-July. All the cookout supplies, the backyard wading pools, the zinnias, the pinwheels, the s'more stuff, the bright cheery shorts and tank tops, the patio umbrellas and tiki torches, the wild plastic tableware, the carefree, the hot, the sweet, the airy, the leisure, the fruity, the energy and youth.....all disappearing on the last clearance tables this weekend!

And like a specter of death and gloom, here come the boot liners, the fire starters, the college ruled spirals, the hot soup mixes, the tight, the heavy, the dark, the dull, the low sky, the smoky fire, the itch, the early dark. Onto the shelves, into our minds, shoving out summer.

Half of summer is still left! Retailers! Stop killing the buzz! Stop it now!

[librechik]

1. I feel your complain

I was noticing that trend yesterday at the King Soopers. School supplies out already! Bummer!

[realisticphish]

2. i see them as heralds of the truly great season

when the land is no longer scorched by the fires of hell

[Denninmi]

3. Oh, calm down, the school supplies.

Will be gone by the end of August, before some schools even start. Have to put up that Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas merchandise.

I totally hear you. I needed to buy some new gloves towards the end of February this year. Good luck with that. I could have gotten a lot of swimsuits.

[tblue]

4. I saw Christmas decorations today at the dollar store.

Lots of them. Ho ho ho. Who knew it was already the holiday shopping season? Only 150 shopping days till Christmas!


edited for typo

[pipi_k]

7. And the strange thing is....

All that early Christmas stuff is for Christmas of 2015.


Merry friggen early Christmas!!!


:7

[onethatcares]

5. gotta make room for the Christmas stuff,

it's being loaded in China as we speak. Clear the aisles, man the buwarks, deck the halls and all that.

[Sherman A1]

6. Agreed

It sucks, but we put up school supplies at the 4th of July. Have done so for the last few years, it's pretty much a complete waste of time, unless one figures that the Summer items are selling down and there is no replenishment on Seasonal in the warehouse, so you have to fill the shelf with something as you condense down the Summer items and the next season is..........

There is also the consideration of

Back to School for Colleges & Universities is mid August, so it's only a month or so.

Some states have a sales tax holiday weekend or days, so the product needs to be on display prior to that time.

Halloween Candy and Costumes will be going in those spaces on Labor Day weekend or thereabouts, followed by Thanksgiving items, followed by Christmas, followed by Superbowl, Valentines, Easter and then Summer............

[Initech]

8. Costco will put out Christmas decorations next week.

[TrogL]

9. Are lawnmowers on sale?

I want a new one for next year.

[tammywammy]

10. I think it could be helpful to some families

I've seen school supply lists these last few years, and it's a lot of stuff (much more than when I was in elementary school in the mid-80s).

For families on a budget, it might be more beneficial if they get reminded and be able to spread out the purchases they'll invariable need to make.

I went to a store a week or so ago that had school supplies out, but also had a ton of "summer" stuff too.

[pstokely]

25. Many schools haven't even put their supply lists out yet

nt

[foxfeet]

11. Here in Seattle our summer typically doesn't begin until July 5,

so it's pretty much as if we skip summer altogether.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. So? Now you get the summer stuff cheap.

[Bonhomme Richard]

13. We went into a walmart to get a new cooler and........

they only had one style in stock. The rest were all gone.

[Jane Austin]

14. I was shocked to learn

that some kids I know in Bristol, TN go back to school August 5!

Good grief.

[grasswire]

22. why?

I can see early start if there were a lot of snow days the year before or something like that, but in Tennessee?

[Lars39]

23. Bristol is in the north east part of TN...they get bad weather in winter.

Icy patches, mountain roads and school buses don't mix very well.

[Jane Austin]

15. I bought some Christmas and birthday presents the other day.

They were gifty things in the garden department at Target. Very useful and attractive things that you can never find at the major gift-giving time of the year.

Gardening goes on here in Texas 12 months a year, but you can't easily find gifty things except in the spring and summer.

[Subdivisions]

16. Glad to send this to the greatest page. n/t

[MiniMe]

17. Don't worry, Christmas will be here before Halloween.

Ugh.

[Urban Prairie]

18. Right about now

The upscale women's clothing designers are putting out their resort-wear fashions for winter '11. I worked for Saks Fifth Avenue as a stock clerk for about a year back in the early 70s, and their displays were always at least 6 to 9 months ahead of the current season.

[pinboy3niner]

19. That's nothing

Proponents of 'anchor baby' laws tell us the terrorists are looking WAY farther ahead, planning to have U.S. citizen babies here, then sending them to the Middle East to train them in jihad, then sending them back (on their U.S. passports) in 30 years to carry out a whole series of 9/11's! They're probably stocking up on suicide vests and such RIGHT NOW. :)

[BeeBee]

20. School here starts in about 3 weeks. n/t

[elehhhhna]

21. they've cut back on sunscreen for cripesssakes

[pstokely]

24. Staples, Office Depot had them out in June, before some schools were even out for the summer

schools start around here in about a month