Christmas in September - YUCK!

jyber209
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:32:35 +0000

It’s sunny and 87 degrees today in suburban Philadelphia. I stopped in at my local CVS to pick up a prescription and noticed what was going on in the front windows. Two CVS staffers were loading up the main window with large wooden nutcrackers and elves in red on ladders.

I saw** red ** sure enough! I asked whose decision it was to decorate for Christmas the first weekend of fall, and was told “corporate.” A nice clerk gave me the number to call for CVS customer service.

I called, while still inflamed, and got a very nice customer service rep who said the district manager would be in touch with me within a couple of days. I told him I would be watching those windows, and do not want to do business with a store that robs me of enjoyment of the current season.

I SO appreciate Nordstrom’s policy of not decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving.

Is this a lost cause? If customers took their business to stores that were more seasonally appropriate, could we make a difference? I feel like setting up a picket line outside CVS protesting these windows.