Commentary.
On my way to Kansas City a couple of weeks ago, I stopped at a Dollar General store to pick up some Halloween candy for the kids that come by our stalls at the American Royal cattle show. One aisle was overflowing with discounted Halloween candy and decorations. Fall and Thanksgiving decorations filled the shelves the next aisle over. A worker was methodically hanging (and piling) Christmas decorations onto shelves in the next aisle, while in another aisle, bags of potting soil, patriotic garden flags and decorations, mosquito repellent cans and candles, and picnic accessories sat waiting to be replaced by the Valentine’s Day candies and decorations secured in the cardboard boxes stacked along the aisle endcap.
It was as though someone threw 6 months of holidays into a food processor and hit the “pulse” button.
