"The store was a graveyard of recent festivities and a staging ground for the next.

[missgayle@urbanists.social]

"The store was a graveyard of recent festivities and a staging ground for the next. In one corner, the bedraggled remains of Valentine’s Day gifts - plush hearts and plastic roses - were being cleared away. In another, Mother’s Day displays were already rising like a strategic invasion.

It made me realize that we have allowed the retail industry to colonize our calendar."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-03-02/the-cathedral-of-plastic-how-we-manufactured-a-year-of-excess/

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