If you walk into many London shops at the moment, you might find it difficult to believe that Christmas is still many weeks away. In this programme, with the help of a market researcher, we find out why Christmas seems to be getting earlier and earlier.
| Vocabulary from the programme |
| Christmas has become too commercialized | it's too concerned with making money |
| to hold out | to wait for as long as possible to get what you want |
| consumers | people who buy things |
| retailers | people/firms who sell things |
| a buyers' market | a situation where consumers have more power than retailers |
| to rail against something | to protest against something |
| to be rushed off your feet | to be very busy |
| nerve-wracking | difficult and stressful |
| it's convenient | it doesn't cause too many problems, it's simple |
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