Where in Indy? I need some cream eggs.

I was at Checkers Sunday getting a infusion of grease, and they were playing Christmas music. I asked if this was trying to get the jump on next Christmas, or it was a hold over. The girl said early for next year, and I hope she was kidding.

holy moley! posts until 10pm?!!? hooray for the new regime! may denton regret his foolishness for the remainder of his days!

Back in college, I worked for Osco/Sav-On (drug store). We usually got our Easter and Halloween candy in 3-4 months before the holiday.

Let's just hope that candy is not left over from last year!

@dlynch: Me thinks there is a staff party, and people are posting while someone goes on a beer run. :) If only Captain Duvel Moneycat had his ID, the party would never need a break.

@dlynch: Shhh! Denton still owns this place for another 25.5 hours (EST, as of time of writing)

It seems like the current trend is to skip every other holiday. First people went straight from Halloween to Christmas, now Christmas to Easter, passing Valentines day right by.

My wife works for TJMax and she says they have Easter, Valentines day and St. Patrick day stuff in already.

And here I thought the Valentine's Day merchandise I spotted today at a Target in Brooklyn was bad enough.

@APFPilot:
Now I know why I can never find the creme eggs when I'm shopping for my kids Easter baskets....I need to buy them in December! Duh!

@Onion_Volcano: Which doesn't mean they have to use it. I don't like Thanksgiving getting ignored, but I can understand it in the stores because it has hardly any commercial exploitability. But skipping New Year's? There's plenty of stuff CVS could be selling for that.

I make it a point to wish the managers, cashiers, staff, whoever I run into, a happy whatever holiday they are pimping so early. I wished the walmart cashier merry christmas in september, and she was confused, and then I pointed at all their christmas crap. Really makes management look dumb when you do this.

Six more days, dude.

Russell Stover candy is nasty any time of the year, but imagine it after it's been sitting on the shelf from December to April, after it had been sitting in the warehouse before that.

But on a positive note, it looks like one of nature's most perfect foods, Reese's peanut butter eggs, are on sale. I like them a lot more than the cups because they have more peanut butter in them. I wish they sold them year-round, though at this rate they will.

The champagne is already flowing here, too, but relevancy to the topic still counts. ;o)

As the official buying agent of Keter as a person and a business entity, my policy is that any store that overdoes the holiday creep will get $0 in revenue from my clients for the overstepped holiday.

My New Year's celebration does not need Peeps and Mini Eggs. My Easter celebration certainly does not need Peeps and Mini Eggs that have been sitting around since New Year's. Either way, the retailer is disqualified.

I saw this and was kind of freaked, I work for CVS, and I'm in Indiana even!

Just so you all know, the endcap stuff comes from corporate so we don't really have much individual discretion on stuff like this. We have the exact same endcap in my store however it is on a back endcap in the very back of the store by the pharmacy, not the lead seasonal endcap. Our lead seasonal endcaps are new years hats, decorations, etc and then we have a whole other endcap dedicated just to champagne.

Sounds like a corporate ploy to get people to buy more Easter candy to me.

Greater availability of Cadbury Mini Eggs? Sign me up. Those things are completely addicting and it's a crime that they're not sold year-round. Sounds like now they will be.

The Walgreens near my office had a little bit of Valentine's Day stuff out -- not much, they still had too much Christmas stuff to get rid of before shelf space became available.

Screw easter, where are my fireworks for July 4th?

Actually, the Christmas decorations in the background are for the 2009 season.

Easter? I haven't even finished all the chocolate from my stocking!

Why wait? Why not just start selling for Christmas '09... no wait 2010!

@runchadrun: Yes indeed..the Russell Stover chocolates are probably the worst...

Mmmm peanut butter eggs...

The only reason I dont mind is because I really love those Cadbury eggs.

At this point, I'm waiting to see which retailer will put up July 4th merch in January.

@Jabronimus: I saw some Cadbury eggs last week that were packaged for Christmas. Walgreens had them, IIRC.

@lauy: lies! you're just another cog in their propaganda machine!

there be sale tags on that easter candy in the photo above... we all know it wasnt "early arrivals" but holdovers from the previous easter that you're trying to liquidate before their expiration dates come due!

@Onion_Volcano: because it's leftover crap from the previous years? this isnt newsworthy, dude.

@rbcat: i love them smooshed between two marshmallow peeps. it's like smores but without that graham cracker crap.

i swear im not nearly as fat as i just sounded.

@ArcanaJ: Only 723 shopping days until Christmas '10

The only plus I see is the existence of Mini Eggs on the shelves. But honestly, doesn't time move fast enough without skipping ahead like this?

@AlxFherMana: I wouldn't dis Russell Stover too much. I love their Nut-Chewey-Crisp assortment.

@dlynch:
I've seen posts at midnight recently lol
They don't sleep either =P
They probably work from home the next day if they're up late posting =D

I wonder how stale that candy will be by easter time?

Let's just have one holiday aisle with stuff for every holiday stocked year 'round and get it over with.

That said, I still don't see what the big deal is. Stores stock shelves with crap they think people will buy to maximize profit -- can you blame them? Don't buy it if you don't want it.

Seriously, stores can stock costumes for Halloween '09 for all I care. Party City does it, and I don't see mobs eagerly forming outside to burn the place down.

@APFPilot: They actually had "Christmas Ornament" cream eggs at the CVS near me (Dallas area) right before Christmas. I thought they might literally be ornaments with a string or something to attach to the tree, but no. They were just a different wrapper on the same Easter Cream egg.

It's irritating to be sure but I just don't buy this stuff so early and hope others do the same. We don't always have to have holiday pressure, do we?

Man, not even the craft stores have Easter stuff yet. If it's too soon to think about making toy bunnies it's too soon for the other Easter stuff.

@APFPilot: this was the exact same thought that crossed my mind when I read this.

I still have about fifteen pounds of Cadbury Mini Eggs that I stocked up on real cheap after Easter last year.

Ugh, don't even talk to me about those Perlis shirts.

@APFPilot: Corner of Brookville and franklin, right next to 1-465 on the south east side of town. It's a only been open for about 6 months so it probably won't show up on any internet searchs.

@Oakie Pokie:

it's going to take more than oakie pokie to tell me whats newsworthy or not. The stuff isn't leftover, they just got it in was all I was pointing out.

That said, I still don't see what the big deal is.

@rinse: It isn't a big deal. But that doesn't mean it isn't silly either.

@badgeman46: Yeah -- that's it. Management looks dumb in that situation. Not you. Not at all you.

@SUNY_SteveDave: I think it's fine to continue Christmas music after Christmas. Those 12 days of Christmas? They happen after, and people celebrate Christian holy days into January (so I'm told).

@Keter: There is no holiday that cannot be improved upon with Cadbury Mini Eggs.

@Antediluvian: Very true. They should sell them year-round.

@APFPilot: I tend to gag from sugar and fake chemicalness when I eat a Caudberry cream egg. Am I eating them wrong? Or is the problem with the eggs themselves? Everyone acts like they love them, and I feel like I'm missing the boat.

Personally, I'm partial to Reece's Peanut Butter Eggs (Both the big cups and the pieces eggs) and Robin Eggs, which are just malted milk balls with a candy shell.