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Sason:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on November 27, 2017, 07:17:44 pm ---
Honey, even we don't want him!
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Hope you get rid of him soon, one way or another.
CellarDweller:
I hope so too!
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 27, 2017, 09:09:37 pm --- :D
I guess. It's hard to separate here from general culture, which I do think shapes people's behavior, but retail is only part of that. I think it's easier to ignore what stores tell you unless everybody else -- your friends and family, celebrities, TV and movies, etc. etc. -- is telling you the same thing. From what I hear the U.S. retail industry is struggling. Which is why they're probably trying to expand their presence in other countries ... :-\
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Sounds plausible.
But AFAIK, the retail companies that push the American holidays here are not American. They're Swedish or European.
By now it's become mainstream in the commercial field, so even small businesses follow suit.
It's probably just a matter of time before the general public start to celebrate in a major way.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on November 28, 2017, 07:12:34 pm ---But AFAIK, the retail companies that push the American holidays here are not American. They're Swedish or European.
By now it's become mainstream in the commercial field, so even small businesses follow suit.
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Oh, OK. Still, the same explanation might be similar -- perhaps those European retailers are struggling and they picked up the idea from US retail and are hoping to capitalize on it there.
--- Quote ---It's probably just a matter of time before the general public start to celebrate in a major way.
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I like to give the general public a little more credit for independent thinking. Who knows, though. I do think everybody's affected by the culture they live in, and certainly the retail industry is part of that culture. But even retail here started getting into Valentine's Day and Halloween decades ago -- maybe as early as the late 19th/early 20th century, and gradually developed over a long time into what it is today. It's hard to believe a retail establishment could suddenly start selling and advertising products -- elaborate costumes and decorations and gifts and cards and foods and all that stuff -- and the population will all fall in line and start buying it, whether they like it or not. But if you see it happening, maybe so! :)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 29, 2017, 10:31:54 am ---Oh, OK. Still, the same explanation might be similar -- perhaps those European retailers are struggling and they picked up the idea from US retail and are hoping to capitalize on it there.
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Just as McDonald's has taken over the world. ...
--- Quote ---It's hard to believe a retail establishment could suddenly start selling and advertising products -- elaborate costumes and decorations and gifts and cards and foods and all that stuff -- and the population will all fall in line and start buying it.
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I don't remember Halloween getting really big for adults until the 1980s, but then, in the late 1970s, I was kinda busy with college and stuff.
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