Well, I happened to need to do some food shopping in Tesco today so I thought I'd check out their seasonal aisle while I was in and they get a thumbs up from me. A lot better than their miserable effort last year. Admittedly there's lots of make up, costumes, masks, sweets and party stuff for kids. But beacuse of the 'Scared Shrekless' DVD this year the've made more of an effort and have in-store marketing based around this theme.
On the cake aisles various brands have decide to market their existing cakes or biscuits with Halloween packaging (a couple of examples are seen below).
However Tesco may have nailed it this year with a selection of £5 CDs. Now if you collect Halloween music you will know what to expect from most cheap CDs i.e all your favourite Halloween tunes played and sung badly by someone who doesn't get a credit on the sleeve! However on these CDs are many rare tracks from the 50s (obviously the copyright's expired on them). And even the Scary Movie Theme CD mostly recorded by the City of Prague Orchestra has some interesting choices. Just be careful that two of the CDs are practically the same. The Halloween Hits CD is the same as The Ultimate Halloween CD with the exception that you get a second disc of sound effects with the second disc... so get that one if you are interested.
Monday 3rd October 2011
