Sainsbury’s can usually be relied
on to put a good dollop of effort into Halloween, turning their seasonal isle
orange for the month of October and stocking a fine range of tat. I don’t know
if it really is a good seller for ‘em or one of the top brass as Sainsbury’s is
just a particularly large Halloween fan and has been abusing their power to
make sure us Halloween nuts are well catered for, I kinda want it to be the
latter. This year is not an exception to the rule, though I was a little
disheartened to see that the very end of the seasonal isle is filed with
Christmas stuff already (I LOVE Christmas but it’s fucking October, can’t we
have Halloween and Bonfire Night first? Are you really going to lose that
significant an amount of sales if you don’t’ get the Chrissy stuff out ‘til November
6th?) but to make up for that they hung a giant fluffy spider above
the self-service tills:
That makes up for a lot of
things, actually. So anyway, are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin: