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    Shoppers complain about Easter eggs already on supermarket shelves

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    1. AnotherKTa on

      > “I just think it’s crazy that everything is so superficial and meaninglessly commercial… [there’s] something quite frantic about it,” he said.

      Says the person out shopping on Boxing Day…

    2. ajockmacabre on

      Yeah, I was pissed off about the chocolate oviods too. My anger was placated somewhat when I found out that it wasn’t compulsory to buy them, and that there were plenty of other shapes of chocolate available.

    5. DaveBeBad on

      Our child is 24. For the last 20 years or so, we’ve been buying Easter eggs for a Christmas present. This is an ongoing family joke.

      (At Easter we try to get Halloween chocolate, and at Halloween, Christmas chocolate)

    7. External-Piccolo-626 on

      I can remember stacking these on Boxing Day 2004, it’s been like it for years. They’ll have been in the warehouse for months, might as well get them on sale because people will buy them.

    9. xX8Havok8Xx on

      For me it was the fact christmas was already half stripped and replaced on the shelves by 2pm on christmas eve.

    10. WebDevWarrior on

      Sky’s subheading for the article quotes a social media user outraged that “Jesus hasn’t even been born yet”.

      I think their reporting might be a few thousand years out of sync.

    11. FlameLightFleeNight on

      Put them out whenever; I don’t care.

      But Easter is a feast that lasts 50 days, and is preceded by a period of fasting. I once tried to buy Easter eggs the day *before* Easter and they had been taken down. I will not eat them during Lent, but would happily keep buying until Whitsun.

      Christmas is also a long feast: either 12 days or 40 depending on who you ask. I would happily buy mince pies in the middle of January—even listen to bad Christmas music. But these joys are denied me in favour of unseasonal Christmas music during Advent.

      The shops do not give me the opportunity to purchase according to my preference, so don’t tell me it doesn’t affect me if I don’t want to buy.

    13. Evening-Task-2895 on

      As a retail worker I’m way more sick of nodding and going “yeah it’s awful” when people complain than i am by items on the shelf I don’t have to buy. I’d much rather have shops care a little too much about traditions than shops that don’t care at all. “It’s consumerist” we’ve been a capitalist society for centuries. And don’t even try to complain when I’m literally scanning your creme eggs.

      I’ve been thinking a lot about Christmas recently for some reason and I think it’s really stupid that it’s hyped up for four months and you only get one day off to cook a huge dinner then it’s back to work. A holiday as big as Christmas should be 3-5 days long and i think it would stop people from moaning about mince pies being available to buy

    14. HumphreyMcdougal on

      I’ll never complain about mini eggs being on sale. Those little beauties should be available all year round

    15. Alarmed_Inflation196 on

      My corner shop had mini eggs 2 months ago.

      For £2.25. For 80g (shrinkflated from 100g)

      Not a chance lol

    18. Vyvyansmum on

      We got bikini’s & sarongs in at Primark. It’s as if some people plan ahead.
      Yet still I’ve had someone ask me if we’ve got any Christmas jumpers left.

    21. EmmForce1 on

      Was on the train mid-December and two lads off to their Christmas party were smashing back a packet of hot cross buns.

      As a middle-aged curmudgeon, I’m against this for no logical reason.

    22. setokaiba22 on

      This happens every year, usually our local Co-Op has them every Boxing Day. Doesn’t really bother me to be honest. Shops gonna do what shops gonna do – doesn’t exactly force me to buy one or insult me in anyway.

    23. douggieball1312 on

      Stupid thing to write an article about, but Easter is extremely late next year so I have to wonder who the hell is buying them right now.

    27. Grantus89 on

      Do people actually buy and eat Easter eggs before Easter. I understand mini eggs and cream eggs, but the idea of eating a proper Easter egg before Easter just seems wrong.

    28. JosiesSon77 on

      Why moan? I love a £1.50 medium egg at the arse end of December, better than paying £4 for the same one in April.

    29. Amazing-Oomoo on

      Andrew Wallace, 54, from Pembrokeshire, sounds like the biggest wanker I’ve heard from all year.

    30. TheLordCampbell on

      Who’s complaining about the chance to spread their seasonal purchases over a number of months rather than frantically trying to get everything last minute?

      I’d rather get a head start now and spread the cost than fist money into the till in the eleventh hour after fighting off everybody and their mum for the last Mars Easter egg

    31. west0ne on

      Saw the easter stuff out this morning at Morrisons, if I didn’t already have chocolate in the house I would have definitely bought some mini eggs. If they’d had them on the shelves before Christmas I would have bought mini eggs for Christmas.

      The creme eggs aren’t what they used to be though. I only ever buy proper Easter Eggs after Easter as they end up be a cheap way to buy chocolate.

    32. PrometheusIsFree on

      What is actually annoying most is it’s such an obvious and blantent display of corporate greed. They just can’t take their foot off the gas for a few weeks, and let us all draw breath. It’s illustrates how relentless they are, and the customers know they’re being exploited. Many would rather the exercise was a bit more subtle. It’s simply ‘Too soon’.

    33. The_Dark_Goblin_King on

      Home bargains had valentine’s day stuff out when I went in today. I did let out an audible “fucks sake”.

      The wheel keeps turning on profit.

    34. Death_Binge on

      Even worse than this phenomenon is the annual reporting of it.

      Up next: bosses earn more money than the average worker does annually in the first few days of the year.

      Sigh.

    36. happymisery on

      It pisses me off that the hot cross buns are perishable and will not last 4 months until Easter. A lot of the stock will be completely wasted if not sold. The supermarkets won’t take the hit on these fucking ridiculous decisions and the cost of this will be passed on through other goods that will sell this time of year. We shouldn’t have to pay extra because the big supermarkets are fucking terrible at seasonal sales.

    37. trev2234 on

      Be nice when the fireworks stop. Been going on for a few months now.

      If people want to eat loads of chocolate then that has zero effect on me.

    39. MyNameIsLOL21 on

      This is so funny, why are people complaining about this? Were the other reasons on holiday?