Bit of a rant but not an AIBU rant:

[LordOfTheFlies]

I was in Costco today -and I think it's an American firm so that's probably the reason- but alot of the Christmas stock is labelled Holidays .(As the The Holidays)
Don't know why it irks me so much but it makes me a bit stabby stabby.
That and people who leave their trolleys abandoned in the aisles, or stand there while I try to get past.
Worse than supermarkets, the trollies are huge and always overflowing.

Yes, yes - but did you get any bargains??!

I got some puff paint for DC (24 x 22ml bottles. 6 colours , 4 bottles each colour) Cost about £10, they can paint their teddy bear and dinosaur models in their stockings.You heat it with a hairdryer to puff it up.
Rest of it was binbags and J20 -

I'd already bought some red glass baubles last month.
I was having a look at crackers but they were £18+. Must be darned good gifts inside for that price.

Have a love/hate relationship with Costco. Yes they are US and I agree on the Holiday thing - I think it makes Diwali, Hannukah and Christmas easier to market. Our US marketing team (having never even visited one of our European Outlets) stopped us having an advent calendar promotion as they said our European customer wouldn't understand it and made us use the Happy Holiday waffle!!FFS?

But the burning question is...did you buy an unfeasibly large box of Orville Reddenbackers popcorn. Mine has lasted 19 months!

Didn't buy popcorn but I saw a family coming out of the shop with about 40-50 Pannatonne in tins (they were £5 each, massive too)
Either they had a shop/teashop or were very fond of Panatoone.
Or maybe that was all their presents sorted