It’s the people who work in these retail environments I feel sorry for. Imagine being surrounded by Christmas blah blah blah for every work shift, for 2 months solid. Eurgggh.
It’s actually quite nice for a while but what tends to happen is that you get all Christmassy in November and beginning of December and in the week up to Christmas all the displays are looking a bit shabby and you’re starting to clear it all out so you can put sale stuff in. So the week before Xmas day is a bit of a downer and you have to sort of crank yourself back up a bit for the big day.
Out of retail now thankfully so I get to enjoy it a bit more.
And BTW, it doesn’t get earlier every year in the shops, there is very good reasons why Xmas stuff starts appearing end of Oct (especially decorations/trees etc) and yes, it is very very hard work in a shop at this time so please give those assistants as much slack as you can.