Thanksgiving Already Creeping Away

I should have known something was up when I walked into Wal-Mart the day before Halloween and had to veer around the huge Christmas tree the employees were putting up. There was Halloween candy on the shelves to the left and right of the tree, and the Halloween aisle, well, half of the Halloween aisle(this would be about one tram long) was still overflowing with jack-o-lanterns and hundreds of costumes. Did everybody go for the homemade costumes this year? Is poor costume sales some reliable indicator about consumer faith in the economy? But I digress. The other half of the aisle was already filled with Christmas candy. Red and green, orange and black and purple. It makes me cringe to think about it.
So, today, I went in search of a little something, well, with a turkey or a horn of plenty on it---a tea towel or fingertip towel or a dish sponge to send to a friend. About half of the Halloween stuff is still there, and there didn't seem to be any more Christmas decorations up, at least. But there was no sign of Thanksgiving! No turkey dish towels, no horns of plenty centerpieces, no turkey cups or napkins or paper plates, not even a turkey platter. I have kind of gotten used to those tacky platters as harbingers of the feast. (I even own one and like it LOL)
If stores begin Halloween in August (so much for fresh candy), and Christmas at Halloween, and then just skip Thanksgiving, what is that? Not holiday creep. Holiday leap? Holiday warp? Whatever it is, I really ought to just hush since I am always kvetching about the over-commercialism of holidays. It's just that it would have been nice to have seen at least a cardboard turkey or a couple of pilgrims or indians with feathers or something like that stuck around. Thanksgiving is still a week away.