# Target holds off on Christmas marketing ----- NOT!

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**Created:** [October 25, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/target-holds-off-on-christmas-marketing-not/799803 "2017-10-25T11:41:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/target-holds-off-on-christmas-marketing-not/799803/1 "2017-10-25T11:41:57Z")

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Target’s been advertising about how it’s not going to start doing Christmas marketing before Thanksgiving (which is, arguably, a form of Christmas marketing itself. But let that pass for now)  
Pepper Mill, watching this, immediately picked up the Target flyer we got. “Then what’s _this_?” she asked. The flyer was covered in Christmas toys and decorations.

and I know that they have Christmas lights set up in their stores right behind the Halloween stuff – I’ve seen it.

It’s probably too much to expect a store to forgo Christmas selling even for a time, considering how big a part of the store’s profits come from it. But, then, why make so transparently false a boast?

Hufington Post comments on this:

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> Target says it’s taking a stand against Christmas creep, noting that customers want more emphasis on Thanksgiving before it’s time to get jolly with the mistletoe and holly.  
> “They want us to pause and be really intentional and recognize Thanksgiving,” Rick Gomez, Target’s chief marketing officer, told The Associated Press. “What they don’t want us to do is go right into Christmas. So, we are going to respect that.”  
> But there’s a huge asterisk on that promise, which earned the company plenty of press coverage about how it was tackling Christmas creep.  
> Because it’s not.  
> The promise to recognize Thanksgiving and hold off on Christmas products/decorations only applies to one small area of its stores.

> **[Target Claims It Won't Start Christmas Early, Then Starts Christmas Early Anyway](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/target-christmas-creep_n_59f01180e4b0bf1f8836b6d1?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009)**
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> Retailer's promise not to launch the holiday season early comes with an asterisk.

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/target-holds-off-on-christmas-marketing-not/799803/2 "2017-10-25T14:06:37Z")

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Reporting [duplicate](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=839895). (Probably accidental, I’m sure)

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**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/target-holds-off-on-christmas-marketing-not/799803/3 "2017-10-25T14:14:00Z")

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They most certainly have not held off. Last week I bought Christmas lights at Target. The lights were next to the Halloween stuff.