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(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Christmas tree vendors see rise in sales   (newssun.suntimes.com) divider line 14
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Ed Finnerty [TotalFark]
2011-12-18 07:15:25 AM
Awesome! I'm using my Christmas money to invest in some of these guys. According to recent trends I should triple my money by May!
 
edmo [TotalFark]
2011-12-18 09:17:18 AM
Well clearly, killing the evil Christmas tree tax (as noted in the other thread) has saved the industry. Yay Obama! Or is it Yay GOP?
 
St_Francis_P [TotalFark]
2011-12-18 09:21:06 AM
edmo: Well clearly, killing the evil Christmas tree tax (as noted in the other thread) has saved the industry. Yay Obama! Or is it Yay GOP?

Obama hates your Christmas tree. Only the GOP stands between him and the merciless destruction of all we hold holy.
 
Happy Hours [TotalFark]
2011-12-18 09:59:43 AM
Just get one of these:

www.library.okstate.edu

I've had mine for over 7 years - one time cost of about $20. No trees were killed for my Xmas and no plastics were used either.
 
jjhinnola
2011-12-18 10:33:42 AM
Happy Hours: Just get one of these:



I've had mine for over 7 years - one time cost of about $20. No trees were killed for my Xmas and no plastics were used either.

Isn't that a plastic pot?
 
xtrc8u [TotalFark]
2011-12-18 11:09:47 AM
Global Warming
 
Kar98
2011-12-18 11:26:05 AM
edmo: Well clearly, killing the evil Christmas tree tax (as noted in the other thread) has saved the industry. Yay Obama! Or is it Yay GOP?

Wasn't that "tax" proposed by the Christmas tree industry to promote said industry? And wasn't that "tax" like 25 cents per tree?
 
simusid
2011-12-18 11:56:20 AM
There's definitely something different this year. We have bought our tree the week before xmas for like 20+ years. There are always at least 4 tree vendors in town, more like 6. There was not a tree to be had yesterday.
 
jaylectricity [TotalFark]
2011-12-18 12:05:55 PM
So one is from El Paso and the other is from Chicago and that's supposed to mean something that they have different Christmas tree economies?
 
LadySusan
2011-12-18 12:29:18 PM
Shouldn't the "rise in sales" thread have moar posts?
 
KarmicDisaster
2011-12-18 12:52:41 PM
Because of the lack of the tax, I knew it!
 
steveGswine
2011-12-18 01:14:40 PM
KarmicDisaster: Because of the lack of the tax, I knew it!

Things would be different if that had gone the other way.
 
The All-Powerful Atheismo
2011-12-18 06:25:58 PM
jjhinnola: Isn't that a plastic pot?

That's as cool as smoking real pot with a guy who looks like Peter Frampton.
 
RogermcAllen
2011-12-18 09:50:04 PM
simusid: There's definitely something different this year. We have bought our tree the week before xmas for like 20+ years. There are always at least 4 tree vendors in town, more like 6. There was not a tree to be had yesterday.

No one wants to hold inventory.

In the past stores would stock up on Christmas stuff in November, restock the whole season, and then sell the leftovers in crazy sales during January.
Now stores stock up on Christmas stuff in October, have crazy sales in November, sell out 3 weeks before Christmas and won't restock.
 
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