In with the new

Valentine's Day Merchandise, Dollarama, Vancouver, BC

Last week I saw this pile of boxes at my local Dollarama. (I had to snap the photo on the sly, hence the rotten quality.)

Valentine's Day Merchandise, Dollarama, Vancouver, BC (Detail)

Each box is marked with the heart design and the words "Valentine" and "Valentin". (I presume the "MC 135" is the merchandise category number.)

Having worked in warehouses this sort of labelling would make product identification easy and help to eliminate the problem of the box of seasonal goods turning up in the stockroom long after the selling period.

The store had marked down all of the remaining Christmas goods and had cleared a large space for the new Valentine's Day merchandise. And after Valentine's Day come St. Patrick's Day, then Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Canada Day, BC Day, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and then back to Christmas. Life in retail is never calm.