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Christmas creep (also referred to as holiday creep [1]) is a merchandising phenomenon in which merchants and retailers introduce holiday-themed merchandise, decorations or music well before the traditional start of a holiday shopping season. [2] The term "Christmas creep" was first used in the mid-1980s but the phenomenon is much older. [3]
Amazon, the leading e-commerce player, has been a significant driver of the "Christmas creep" phenomenon. With events like Prime Big Deal Days in October, Amazon encourages early holiday spending ...
The Sears Wish Book is a popular Christmas-gift catalog released by Sears Holdings Corporation, annually in September. The catalog contains toys and other holiday-related merchandise. The first Sears Wish Book was printed in 1933, [15] and was a separate big-book catalog from the annual Sears Christmas catalog. In the 2007 edition of the ...
Stores have been pushing up Christmas merchandise earlier and earlier in recent years. In 2021, Amazon and Walmart, afraid of tepid consumer demand because of the pandemic, initiated holiday sales ...
Alamy For almost as long as Christmas has been a commercialized holiday, there have been complaints about "Christmas Creep" -- the tendency for retailers to launch holiday sales and advertising ...
Mr. Bingle is a fictional character marketed and sold by department store Dillard's during the holiday season. Originating as a mascot of the Maison Blanche department store in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mr. Bingle has become an important part of the popular culture of the Greater New Orleans area, and across the United States.
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Given how the phenomenon has extended beyond Christmas to include earlier marketing of all seasonally-themed merchandise, I move that we create an article titled "Seasonal retail creep" for Wikipedia, and that this article be incorporated into the new one.