Nordstrom Holidays ~ 2010

[ILv2Shop]

I really appreciate Nordstroms stand to not put up Christmas until after Thanksgiving. So many stores are putting their decorations and wares earlier and earlier every year and before you know it, after Valentines Day we'll have Christmas.
I enjoy Christmas but not the commercialized one.

Does the earliness of the season bother you or do you rather like it?

[blossomed]

I worked retail including Nordstrom for many years. The part you many not realize is if the stores wait until Thanksgiving to put up decorations - it completely ruins Thanksgiving for many of their staff. We worked from 7pm Wed before thanksgiving until about 3 am thanksgiving morning and then the display team worked even later. So that 8am BF morning everything is beautiful for the holidays. And thanksgiving is the last break for retail people for about 6 weeks - holiday shopping and then holiday returns. So for me - I don't really mind if it goes up earlier. I got out retail cause it got very hard to be holly jolly!

I was at the mall last week and they (the mall not Nordstrom) had displays up - they just were not lit. I thought that was a reasonable comprimise.