Its happening with everything now - it seems to have been Hallowern since early October and even Rememberence Day seems to be creeping earlier and earlier with poppies out in force from mid-October. Even going back to summer and the Back to School stuff is out before the summer holidays now.
Society basically wishes the year away now and I think we're all worse off for it.
I echo your sentiments Brekkie. With Channel 5 now into the rhythm of showing daily Christmas films (back to back at the weekend) are we becoming premature or merely old?
Because we more and more follow a retail calendar I’ve seen people put up Christmas decorations in November but take them down on Boxing Day.
MR
mr_vivian
I think the reason for all of it becoming earlier is that the high street is on its knees. So they have to get advertising events sooner.
I've heard on the news the only thing keeping shops open is the Christmas boom so I can understand why it's getting earlier even though it's SO annoying.
I think Christmas adverts used to start on the first Saturday of November when X Factor was on but now I see they started on 1st November this year.
Not just accusing - "complaining and being disappointed that it's not."
Meanwhile, Coke seem to have taken it in the humour it was meant. Could even lead to a cross-brand tie-up.
I'm now just imagining the Coke marketing team just throwing money into a suitcase and driving over towards the visual effects house who made the ad to get them to put the Coke truck in saving Kevin.
I'm imagining the Pepsi marketing team doing the same.
JM
JamesM0984
It used to be the thing that the Coca Cola trucks, along with most Christmas adverts, would debut in the first X Factor after Guy Fawkes Night. With the X Factor now virtually on life support, that's become a bit more diluted.
I agree with the issues with the High Street. Indeed, I wonder if we will have shops at all in 20 years from now, apart from supermarkets. I'm straying into Metropol territory here, but how much longer do even the
big
sites, the likes of Bluewater, Fosse Park, Merry Hill etc., have left?
I can see a day where you don't actually make a purchase at the shop and instead it's just a showroom. No stock will be held. You will go to a shop, buy a product, try it on maybe, and then you'll have a code where you go home and order it online. There will be the latest tellys, but you can't take on home - decide which one you like, then go home and order it online. That's the only future I can see for physical shops in 20 years from now.
You think I'm mad, but just 20 years ago I loved nothing more than going into Currys or Dixons of a Saturday afternoon and trying out the latest HiFi systems, or checking out then state-of-the-art tech like SkyDigital, MiniDisc or DVD, or picking up a set of blank tapes ahead of recording the following day's Top 40 off Radio 1. It really was another time. I can drive now, but if I was in my teens today, I'd have to get a bus into the nearest
city
to check out whatever tech was on display now; because there's not a shop in town anymore like there was back in the day.
On the flipside of course, airports now actually
force
passengers to walk through a shop before you can get to your plane, and once you've actually made it though to departures, it looks more like High Cross than Heathrow! Airports seem to be the exception to the rule when it comes to the high street dying!
You kind of see why they went bust. What a load of toot!
Is that line with the Quality Street supposed to go "Crackerjacks, Crackerjills... Mums To Be" with a model who looks uncannily like Princess Diana would have done at the time, presumably pregnant with William at this point in time?
It used to be the thing that the Coca Cola trucks, along with most Christmas adverts, would debut in the first X Factor after Guy Fawkes Night. With the X Factor now virtually on life support, that's become a bit more diluted.
I agree with the issues with the High Street. Indeed, I wonder if we will have shops at all in 20 years from now, apart from supermarkets. I'm straying into Metropol territory here, but how much longer do even the
big
sites, the likes of Bluewater, Fosse Park, Merry Hill etc., have left?
I can see a day where you don't actually make a purchase at the shop and instead it's just a showroom. No stock will be held. You will go to a shop, buy a product, try it on maybe, and then you'll have a code where you go home and order it online. There will be the latest tellys, but you can't take on home - decide which one you like, then go home and order it online. That's the only future I can see for physical shops in 20 years from now.
You think I'm mad, but just 20 years ago I loved nothing more than going into Currys or Dixons of a Saturday afternoon and trying out the latest HiFi systems, or checking out then state-of-the-art tech like SkyDigital, MiniDisc or DVD, or picking up a set of blank tapes ahead of recording the following day's Top 40 off Radio 1. It really was another time. I can drive now, but if I was in my teens today, I'd have to get a bus into the nearest
city
to check out whatever tech was on display now; because there's not a shop in town anymore like there was back in the day.
On the flipside of course, airports now actually
force
passengers to walk through a shop before you can get to your plane, and once you've actually made it though to departures, it looks more like High Cross than Heathrow! Airports seem to be the exception to the rule when it comes to the high street dying!
People have been predicting showroom only stores for about a decade now - and they're a nonsense idea. The version you imagine is particularly odd - going home to order when smartphones are near ubiquitous?
