{"id":270,"date":"2015-02-04T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=270"},"modified":"2015-02-04T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:31:42","slug":"valentines-day-is-10-days-away-but-go-ahead-and-wait-until-the-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Valentines Day is 10 Days Away, But Go Ahead and Wait Until the Last Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the holidays, Valentines Day is the funniest to work in\u00a0retail. \u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing how many people wait until literally the last minute. \u00a05-6 PM on the 14th is a Black Friday type crowd of mainly men grabbing at chocolate heart boxes, cards and whatever else they can find to give to their soulmate. \u00a0I&#8217;ve seen guys buying a 6-pack of beer and a gift bag, and even a box of condoms and gift wrap.<\/p>\n<p>I have a dog and love her dearly, but it&#8217;s amazing to me that people will spend an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/media\/press-releases\/cupid-shower-americans-jewelry-candy-this-valentines-day\" target=\"_blank\">$703 million dollars<\/a> on Valentines gifts for their pooches.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favorite commercials, because it nails the reality of guys and greeting cards:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Budweiser True Cards\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LnU2T2P1oxA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s an awesome Greeting Card Display Fail.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/dbCEp9L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the holidays, Valentines Day is the funniest to work in\u00a0retail. \u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing how many people wait until literally the last minute. \u00a05-6 PM on the 14th is a Black Friday type crowd of mainly men grabbing at chocolate heart boxes, cards and whatever else they can find to give to their soulmate. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=270\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-humor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}