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The economics of Christmas are significant because Christmas is typically a high-volume selling season for goods suppliers around the world. Sales increase dramatically as people purchase gifts, decorations, and supplies to celebrate. In the U.S., the "Christmas shopping season" starts as early as October.
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The film follows a group of shopgirls working in Bunting and Hobbs, a London department store, during the Christmas shopping season. [2] [3] It was an attempt by Adelphi Films to move into bigger budgeted films. [citation needed] It was the last movie Guillermin directed for the company. [4]
The exchange of gifts is central to the Christmas and holiday season, and the season thus also incorporates a "holiday shopping season". This comprises a peak time for the retail sector at the start of the holiday season (the "Christmas shopping season") and a period of sales at the end of the season, the "January sales".
In August 1939, amid the Great Depression, Fred Lazarus Jr., head of Federated Department Stores (which would later become Macy's), lobbied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving a week earlier, to the second to last Thursday of November instead of the last Thursday of November, to make the Christmas shopping season last longer and help boost retail sales.
Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television.Since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, these films are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season.
Season Episodes Originally released ... "Entire Cast Show" ... "Jack Does Christmas Shopping Show" December 12, 1954 () 38: 7
Super Saturday or Panic Saturday is the last Saturday before Christmas or Christmas Eve, and is a major day of revenue for American retailers, marking the end of the shopping season which begins on Black Friday. Super Saturday targets last-minute shoppers.