The spot emphatically denies that it has anything to do with Christmas, while showing Christmas imagery such as Santa, Christmas trees, reindeer, and an apparent birthday cake for Jesus.
Of course, like last year’s ad, this spot isn’t really an advertisement for holiday shopping: it’s an ad for the store’s layaway program.
A friend once told me that her parents used layaway not just to spread out payments over time without using credit cards, but to keep gifts picked out ahead of time hidden from their four kids until Christmas. A typical layaway contract at Kmart is eight weeks long, so people who shop today would need to find a hiding place for almost another month and a half.
The stores of Sears Holdings Corporation must really be excited about Christmas: they started their countdown with a “199 Days Until Christmas” e-mail blast in June.
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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