Here is one of the greatest mysteries of life: Why do stores stop selling seasonal items once the season arrives that these items are for?
I am new to New York, and so don’t have any of the items that living and driving in New York require – like sand, salt, shovels, sleds, gloves, coats, hats, snowpants (for the kids), etc.
I went to numerous stores today to try to find all of the above, and every store gave me the same answer, “Oh, we stopped selling those things back in September.” In Walmart, I went to the “Seasonal” section, and the employees were stocking the shelves with coolers, lawn chairs, and beach balls! It’s 20 degrees and snowing today! We still have at least three months of winter left, and then a few months of spring before anybody will be using coolers and beach balls!
Am I really the only person in the United States who wants to buy snow shovels and ice salt in December and January when it is icy and snowing? In our procrastinating society, I have never understood why stores don’t carry season items all the way through the season that the items are for. Or at least half way through. It is one of life’s unexplained mysteries to me.
So help me out. Honestly, do any of you actually buy your snow shovels in September and your beach balls in January?
Jeremy,
This is why I never end up with the camping stuff I need, at the time that I realize I need it.
What can I say? It’s an absurdist Orwellian bedlam. It’s meant, on higher plane, to drive you to your knees.
One thing you must avoid at all costs: trying t make sense of it. You can’t – it’s retail.
I heard today that shops here in England have started trying to sell summer clothes largely because they have been trying to sell winter clothes for months but no one is buying. Most years this is when they sell off the leftover winter clothes cheaply. So maybe you should blame the recession for yet another stupidity.
Ha, yeah they’re already selling Valentine’s candy where my folks live here in Pennsylvania. Pretty crazy, eh?
I buy beach stuff in January. That’s when it’s summer, here in New Zealand!
Hey Jeremy
Surprise, come to Canada, we had almost no snow this year and Stores here still have them cause nobody bought them in Nov, Dec. It looks weird seeing all the snow blowers and shovels out still when we have no snow. Lots of sales though, get a snow blower cheap, really cheap. And lots of deicing salt too.
And spring is almost here too.. all plus temps from now on.
Vaughn
I love Canada. Maybe I will move…
Hey
would love to have you as a Neighbor.. and a good friend!!
Enjoy a good discussion and study over a Tim Hortons coffee :))
cheers..
Sincerely
Vaughn
Now you’re tempting me. Nothing goes better together than Scripture and coffee!
This is why I took to the web to find someone who is as annoyed as I am. I’m a busy mom who just got the chance to Christmas shop, we had 10 days ’til Christmas and the workers were piling all the stuff into totes while shoppers are trying to grab the last little bits they can scrounge for.
My blood boils because the store HAS to be losing money cutting off those last ten days of sales!!! I remember stores doing this for quite a few years but not to this extent. It grinds my gears!
I’m not a fan of shopping through Black Friday either, but I guess I’m stuck here in Clown World.