I have worked at the Helen Christmas Shoppe since the year it opened. I have hand-priced approximately four hundred and twenty thousand ornaments. The discount you are asking me for, in August, is not a discount. It is an attack.
The Old Sautee Store's annual inventory audit, required annually under the retailer's insurance binder and completed in late March after beginning in January, counted 2,140 distinct bins of German and German-themed Christmas decorations across the store's three display rooms. Of those, 214 bins contain exactly one item, including a sealed 1971 tin of Glühwein-scented candles and a wooden nutcracker with documented Y2K water damage.
