🎅🤶 7 Reasons to Do Holiday Shopping in October (AARP Article)

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🎅🤶 7 Reasons to Do Holiday Shopping in October (AARP Article)

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7 Reasons to Do All Your Holiday Shopping in October.

Why early-bird deal hunters get the worms.

By Donna Fuscaldo, AARP. Published September 30, 2024. Updated October 01, 2024.

Why wait until November to start your holiday shopping when there are a number of benefits to getting it done in October? Just ask the 48 percent of shoppers polled by Bankrate who plan to begin making their holiday purchases by Halloween this year. That’s well before Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season, and it’s becoming more and more common — and retailers are responding in kind.

“The truth is that the so-called Black Friday creep began long ago, but the pandemic really accelerated it,” says Julie Ramhold, senior editor at DealNews. “We had already seen Black Friday sales ahead of the holiday itself, and starting in 2020, retailers seemed to be leaning into offering up deals even earlier. And that’s essentially continued, so that if you’re ready to start your shopping in October, it’s entirely possible."

https://www.aarp.org/money/budgeting-saving/info-2024/holiday-shopping-in-october.html