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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FH2T7M - . Halloween merchandise and pumpkin decorations on a seasonal supermarket shelf under Star Buys promotional price labels. The photograph is tightly framed on the merchandise itself, avoiding a speculative retailer identification and concentrating on the visible seasonal range and promotional pricing. Orange pumpkin buckets, witches, soft toys and black-and-orange decorations fill a supermarket shelf under bright promotional price labels, creating a clear display of mass-market Halloween merchandise. The products illustrate how British grocery and discount retailers increasingly treat Halloween as a major seasonal retail stock-photo/gotonysmith-Event.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>event, placing themed confectionery, costumes, decorations and novelty goods in prominent aisles during early autumn. Pumpkin imagery, witches and black-and-orange colour schemes draw on familiar Halloween symbols that allow shoppers to recognise the seasonal range immediately without needing detailed product explanations. The visible low-price promotional labels position the display within value retailing, where seasonal goods are often sold for a short window and then rapidly replaced by Christmas stock. The shelf shows how Halloween has become a distinct autumn retail season in Britain, with supermarkets devoting temporary space to themed decorations, toys and party goods well beyond confectionery alone. The tightly packed shelving and repeated pumpkin faces also show the visual density used by retailers to turn ordinary grocery space into a temporary themed destination. Halloween is a short but intense merchandising period between back-to-school ranges and Christmas, so seasonal shelf space has to generate sales quickly. The mix of reusable buckets, plush figures and decorative ornaments shows how the event extends beyond confectionery into home decoration and party accessories. Temporary seasonal ranges also create stock risk because goods tied to a single event have little selling time once Halloween has passed.
England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K967KB - Pick-your-own pumpkins offer diversified income channels
The market for pumpkins in the UK has seen a huge growth in the past decade, with the public increasingly looking for an on-farm experience and to buy directly from producers.
Pumpkins can offer significant additional income for farmers if done well, especially when accompanied by other value-added extras such as refreshments or attractions.
There are two main markets “ either selling direct to the consumer or wholesale. Each has its benefits and challenges.
When growing for wholesale, there are often extra costs for grading, on-farm storage and transport. The labour-intensive harvest process for wholesale at scale will also need seasonal labour, stock-photo/gotonysmith-Which.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>which can be difficult to find.
Selling direct to consumers poses other challenges, including public access to the farm.
Pumpkin seeds can be planted indoors from mid- to late April, however it is more common to plant seeds and seedlings outdoors from May to early June.
Lack of fruit can be an issue and diseases include powdery mildew and grey mould. Pumpkins can also suffer in very wet seasons and may need irrigation during a dry summer.
Will John and Chris Creed, consultants at agricultural adviser Adas, say that the market is becoming saturated in some regions of the UK. However, businesses can still be profitable if they are able to market effectively.
What are the essential requirements and costs?
Mr Creed says: To be successful, you have got to have infrastructure, hard car parking, booking systems, strong social media campaigns and good road access.
A potentially less risky option is to grow for an existing business, which may have already invested in the infrastructure to cater for the public.
Some farm shops and garden centres have very good infrastructures to accommodate the public, but they haven't got much ground. So they may be able to grow some and then stock up from a local grower, which can be a win-win situation for everybody,
Massey Brook Lane, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0EG
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4575478451 - 'If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
Have a look at my archived photography, from ten years back at www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/
All images (c) Tony Smith - @HotpixUK - No images to be used without express permission',
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PYX9BA - Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.
It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain
that such festivals may have had pagan roots
and that Samhain itself was Christianized as Halloween by the early Church. Some believe, however, that Halloween began solely as a Christian holiday, separate from ancient festivals like Samhain.
Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration. Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows' Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain vegetarian foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.
Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5128313336 - 'The Sea - 'Morcheeba' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
A track to enjoy with a drink in your hand or a bar of quality chocolate, this one.
The word 'morcheeba' is meant to indicate 'the way of cannabis'. This originated from 'MOR'(middle of the road) plus 'Cheeba' (informal name of cannabis).
Morcheeba mix pop, hip-hop, rock and electronica and are based in the UK. They have consisted of Paul &
Ross Godfrey, Skye Edwards and recently Daisy Martey, among many guests. Their debut album 'Who Can You Trust?' on China Records was released in April 1996.
This track comes from 'Big Calm' the second album which was more mainstream and pop-ey.
This is the best album to start with Morcheeba, if you check it out, tell 'em I sent you :-)
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This is meant to be a slightly spooky image in keeping with Halloween. I have avoided the usual Halloween cliche's of ghosts, ghouls, pumpkins, trick or treat etc. Last years very normal Halloween carved pumpkin with an ipod headphone can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4083459935/
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Keywords: halloween,haloween,biscuits,treats,treat,cookie,cookies,home,made,food,sweet,sweets,iced,icing,baked,oven,seasonal,autumn,scary,ghost,ghoul,ghouls,pumpkin,derek,acorah,hunter,365days,stillife,stilllife,still,life,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4058830349 - 'Some homemade halloween biscuits.
(c) baking credit to Jo/Joe Parkin
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
