Target vows to avoid the 'Christmas creep' this year

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Target vows to avoid the 'Christmas creep' this year

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:33:19 PM EDT

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"Customers are tired of Christmas creeping up on them.

As The Washington Post reported, Target customers hope to avoid the “Christmas creep” — a time in which companies promote Christmas ahead of other holidays, like Thanksgiving — this year.

In response, the retailer said it has listened and plans to celebrate Thanksgiving ahead of Christmas.

“They want us to pause, and be really intentional and recognize Thanksgiving,” Rick Gomez, Target’s chief marketing officer, told The Washington Post. “What they don’t want us to do is go right into Christmas. So, we are going to respect that.”

Target said that it will keep signs and displays for Turkey Day up, hoping that “marketing will play up Thanksgiving meal preparation and entertaining for shoppers,” according to The Washington Post.

And Target plans to keep the holiday season by offering “meaningful promotions," Target chief merchandising officer Mark Tritton told The Star Tribune.

One of those promotions includes Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new line of holiday-themed decor. The founders of the hit HGTV show “Fixer Upper” will be selling a new “Hearth & Hand” collection this holiday season, according to CNBC.

The holiday decor collection, which includes wreaths, ornaments and stockings, launches on Nov. 5."

Go into Home Depot and see the Christmas stuff that went up early this month.

Just plain stupid on the part of Home Depot.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:34:50 PM EDT

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Good. I've actually seen a few retailers do things like that lately.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:35:00 PM EDT

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Target says "Christmas" again? HUH, who'd have thunk?

Will not be shopping there.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:36:20 PM EDT

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Walmart is already loading in Christmas shit up here.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:37:44 PM EDT

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Oh, I thought they were gonna keep men out of the women's restroom this holiday shopping season.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:37:57 PM EDT

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I went in to a Target store one time about ten years ago.
Was not impressed and have not been back.
Don't care what they do.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:38:17 PM EDT

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They can all wait until a few days after Halloween. That gives them plenty of time to have sales on fake trees so people can buy them and put them up on/after Thanksgiving.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:38:34 PM EDT

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Well there's no point to things like boycotts if you don't punish for behavior you don't like and reward for behavior you do like. If you say "they've lost me as a customer forever!" Then they have no reason to change.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:39:25 PM EDT

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Surprised they are doing this with the huge percentage of sales that take place in preparation for Christmas.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:39:38 PM EDT

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I thought Christmas Creep was about Santa always knowin about your shit and watching you when you're sleeping.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:41:19 PM EDT

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I wouldn't be surprised if there's a huge crossover between the people that go balls deep spending for Christmas AND the people that don't want to hear sleigh bells in a store in September.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:41:21 PM EDT

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Target is drunk, because they're Christmas lights wall was up and for sale the same time the Halloween decorations went up in September.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:41:52 PM EDT

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Who really cares when a store put Christmas items out

I like it to last as long as possible

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:43:33 PM EDT

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Bullshit.

Target across the road has had Christmas stuff behind the Halloween stuff for a month already.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:43:53 PM EDT

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Here as well. They take the inside lawn and garden area, get rid of everything but the 50 different kinds of bird seed, and move in the Christmas stuff.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:44:03 PM EDT

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I think target should worry about the literal "creeps" in their store before they worry about "Christmas Creep".

To be clear, I couldn't care less when stores put our their Christmas stuff.

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:48:34 PM EDT

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The Christmas decorations were already up at the mall where I live in the Philippines when I got home...

ON AUGUST 3RD.

They don't have Thanksgiving, but come the hell ON!

Posted: 10/24/2017 3:53:55 PM EDT

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Dude you should know better than anyone that Filipinos don't fuck around with Christmas. Christmas is a lifestyle.

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:10:04 AM EDT

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I have lived in the PI for 9 years. It has just been the last 2 or 3 that it started before Halloween. I mean carols on the PA and Santa hats worn by mall employees, not just decorations being sold.

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:23:18 AM EDT

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lol Target

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:28:11 AM EDT

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menards here installed christmas right after labor day.

Went to look at grills, found Santa instead. Add to fact I hate that fucking fake a$ fuck day with a pa$$ion - no more menards for awhile.

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:30:16 AM EDT

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They have a lot more customer specific data than they did a decade ago.

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:30:46 AM EDT

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I will help them by telling Target that their choice of holiday decorations does not influence my decision to not shop there.

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:37:25 AM EDT

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I'll be that this isn't Target listening to customers as much as analytics guys and bean counters saying "Hey! We are leaving a lot of money on the table by glossing over this holiday and not fully promoting it as an independent event like Back-To-School, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, etc."

And I think they would be right.

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:45:16 AM EDT

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I wouldn't be surprised if there's a huge crossover between the people that go balls deep spending for Christmas AND the people that don't want to hear sleigh bells in a store in September.

They have a lot more customer specific data than they did a decade ago.

Supposedly they can accurately predict when a woman is pregnant based on what she buys. And I'm not talking about when she's buying diapers, like when she just became pregnant. So they can do quite a bit.

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:45:34 AM EDT

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As long the he's wearing a dress....

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:48:09 AM EDT

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Yeah, let's make it year round so it completely loses any sense of being special.

Christmas decorations go up the day after Thanksgiving and come down on New Year's Day. That's the rule in my house.

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:50:49 AM EDT

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Hans Gruber thread?

Posted: 10/25/2017 7:56:36 AM EDT

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Only reason to step foot in a Target is to support liberals with my money, allow little girls to view tranny sausage while peeing, or if I wanna sit and pee in the women's bathroom.

None of the above have ever been on my to-do list.

LOL

Posted: 10/25/2017 8:02:40 AM EDT

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I work at a Home Depot and the Christmas crap has been on display for a few weeks already. They jump the gun on every holiday.

Posted: 10/25/2017 8:08:05 AM EDT

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I've seen christmasy junk out already, and we haven't even seen halloween.

At some point, retailers will either have to reign this stuff in or just have a christmas section year round as they are getting close enough to having a christmas section for an entire fucking quarter.

I don't decorate, I don't put a tree up. I might play some christmasy stuff on the stereo sometimes. We don't really give gifts. What we do is agree that on black friday/cyber monday....we have a certain budget to spend on whatever we want, and we shop on the internet until we are spent or unwilling to pay the asking.

We spend the time together, we are more efficient with our $, and there's no clean up.