I work part-time in a department store (mainly for the health care benefits, since my husband is self-employed). The Christmas decorations went out on the sales floor about three weeks ago, located on the next isle over form the Halloween stuff. The freight crew worked from midnight this morning to move the Halloween candy, and replace it with Christmas candy. I would normally have worked with them, but took the day off for All Souls Day.
The dreaded so-called "Christmas" music will start the day after Thanksgiving, and it will start out, for the first two weeks or so, having at least some actual Christmas carols, along with secular "holiday" songs. By about two week before Christmas, the songs will have changed to just "holiday" songs, some of which are really awful. I'm not looking forward to hearing the several different versions of "Santa Baby," and "Baby, it's Cold Outside." Sometimes I can tune them out, but not usually. Even worse, sometimes they stick in my head and replay in my mind after I get off of work. :shocked: