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"Is it just me, or did Halloween usurp Thanksgiving's position in the holiday hierarchy this year? -- thetoledowire"
It's not just you ... starting last week at least one department store was in full-on Xmas mode, a dress shop in downtown Perrysburg had shiny foil gift-wrapped windows, and the Christmas-theme TV commercials started.
I fully expect that a decade or so in the future, Christmas commercialism will have been pushed forward into the Back-to-School retail sales period. That will expose the soft underbelly of summer holidays, so retailers can make an assault on Fourth of July.