Nov 24, 2007
Spend Damn You, Spend!
Apparently I am not in anyone's target demographic. I get phone calls from time to time from companies conducting surveys and after a few, often just one question, they tell me that I'm not in their demographic and hang up. This is really too bad for them, because I have some very fine opinions just looking for a place to land.
The A.C. Neilson Company called this evening wanting to survey me about movies in current release. The interviewer asked my age and ethnicity, how often I go to the movies and then asked if I had children four to seven years of age. When I said no to the children question, the interviewer thanked me and said that they we only interviewing parents of four to seven year-olds. Shouldn't that have been the first question? Weird.
The Lovely Mrs. Sneed and I ventured out for some shopping today. Things seem to be humming along for the Christmas shopping season, based upon the number of cars on the road anyway. Our shopping was at the Costco and the grocery store, not the mall.
Don't ask me how I know this, but at one o'clock in the morning Friday, there were imbeciles lined up at the Circuit City and Toys-R-Us stores near our home. I can't think of anything I would wait in line overnight to get. This may be why no one wants my opinion.
Associated Press ran a story today with this paragraph in it.
According to ShopperTrak RCT Corp., which tracks sales at more than 50,000 retail outlets, total sales rose 8.3 percent to about $10.3 billion on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, compared with $9.5 billion on the same day a year ago. ShopperTrak had expected an increase of no more than 4 percent to 5 percent.
I'm as pleased as punch that people are out spending their money, but I will guarantee you that within a week or so we will begin to read stories about how disappointing Christmas sales are after all, because there is no satisfying these people. It's the same every year.
A friend told me recently that he spends five thousand bucks on Christmas gifts and the rest of the year paying it off. That's a sad commentary on something.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
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3 comments:
In Yonkers, NY over 200 people lined up in a freezing parking lot for many hours waiting for the Sears store to open (the first person in line was a lady who stood there for a little over 9 hours.) Just before the store opened, a big crowd of bullying "latecomers" showed up and stormed the entrance. When the employees opened the doors, the latecomers pushed through first. The lady who was first in line ended up being shoved, and was maybe the 50th person to actually get inside the store--where everyone was already running and grabbing.
People! This is No Way to shop!
"Christmas is for Kids" that was the saying in my family, the adults went all out for the kids and only gave each other small token gifts. I am happy with a small token--The winter before last I was in Dublin, so I did my Christmas shopping there. Irish people look for Christmas deals too, but no one was crazed at all. I had a pleasant time and everyone liked their slightly unusual gifts. Friends there who have 3 children always let the kids know they will receive only ONE major gift (for under 50 Euros) and of course the kids get a gift from their grandparents also--but it does not compare to the huge haul an American kid gets.
I love Christmas
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