I saw something really really stupid that I just can’t make sense of, so I had to write it down.
Picture this. It’s January in KW. Not only is it January, but it’s this past January, you know the one where if it wasn’t snowing its face off, it was impossibly cold. Someone walks into Walmart. They’ve come in from out of town and forgot to pack a pair of warm gloves, so they hope to pick up a pair. They walk and they walk and they walk. They search the aisles. Nothing looks like where warm gloves might be hanging around. So they approach an employee. “Can you tell me where I could find some gloves?” they say.
The employee says “We don’t have any gloves anymore.”
“You’re sold out?” the person asks.
“No. We put out our spring merchandise now.”
Excuse me? That’s how you know that the orders must come down from Arkansas, you know, where nobody needs warm gloves. Have they forgotten that people lose gloves mid season and might need to replace a pair? Gloves are things people don’t just wear to be fashionable. They keep our hands warm!
I’ve seen this with other stuff, like sandals, or shorts, or certain kinds of shirts. It’s annoying, but this just seems really stupid.
Can somebody explain why stores do this? I understand that it would be stupid to leave Christmas stuff out all year, or to have Easter candy just sitting there in the summer. I know that at the beginning of a season, people buy stuff for the upcoming season. But people always need stuff to keep warm when it’s freezing cold! It just doesn’t make sense.