I do not think they will wait to December, but they will not bring her out in full force until after Thanksgiving. Then she will be EVERYWHERE.

• Every radio station,
• every shopping center,
• every grocery store,
• parks with lit fir trees will have speakers screaming out "All I want for Christmas is you, baby (Ah, oh, ah, oh)"

You walk into Walgreens to pick up flu medicine, and pass by ornaments like these

You'd rather hear the Whos in Whoville singing "Fah-who foris, dah-who doris, welcome Christmas, bring your light. " than this!

damn climate change

The real reason why we need to stop climate change.

Filipino households have been making her stronger every year. Soon she'll be thawed out before summer ends.

Fucking hell, is there no decency??

Name something more Filipino than playing Mariah Carey Christmas songs in October

you gotta admit that whamageddon is pretty funny though

Don't forget the third in the trifecta of holiday mood souring. Christmas Shoes.

I sure hope they give employees good mental health insurance then.

It's pretty much the only reason she hasn't been forgotten. She really doesn't do anything anymore.

Like so many things in life, Boomers are to blame.

That's climate change. Early defrosting

I am really getting sick of Christmas shit being displayed and pushed in October. Quit ruining Halloween. Save that shit for Thanksgiving at least that closer to it.

For one I say Fuck Christmas and will not celebrate it. It all capitalism bullshit only reason they keep starting so early. Soon as fall hits they start right off with the Christmas shit because I guess Halloween doesn't have the financial draw for retail as Christmas.

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Retailers want to play Christmas music to encourage shopping, but only secular music to avoid causing offense. If you look at all the most popular Christmas songs and take out any that with religious lyrics (Silent Night, Joy to the World, Oh Come all ye Faithful, etc.) you'd be hard pressed to put together a playlist longer than an hour or two.

An employee working an eight hour shift will therefore hear the same song a minimum of four times. In my experience it's closer to six, but we'll be conservative here. That means Mariah Carey is telling you that you're all she wants for Christmas at least twenty times a week. Most stores start up the Christmas music in early November, but we're being charitable and saying the music will be playing from Thanksgiving through the week of Christmas.

The TL;DR is that your average full-time retail worker is going to hear the same few Christmas songs a bare minimum of 80-120 times during the busiest time of the year. That figure doubles in a worst case scenario where a one hour loop is played starting after Halloween. A ton of people have worked retail at some point on their lives so while you might not be the only one who likes this song you might have a hard time finding people who don't have a knee-jerk resentment towards it.