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Diamond marketing - fantasy and self-delusion

On this day before Christmas 2015, I am cogitating over the seeming mountains of flyers that have arrived in the mail, the paper kind, in the last few weeks.  I do not recall it ever having been that intense, and I can only attribute it to a soft season that pushed so many retailers to offer big discounts so early in December, even in November.  I recall that years ago, no discounts showed up until January.  Long gone, those days. In all of it, jewelry was almost entirely missing.  Yes, I received flyers from Macy's that included jewelry, but they do that all year round.  Signet had plenty of ads on TV for Jared and Kay Jewelers.  And there were a few promos via e-mail.  After that, zip, at least as I can recall.  Worse yet, as I have noted before, the big fashion magazine issues were nearly devoid of jewelry.  The apparel ads were great, but almost none showed a model wearing jewelry. Oh yes, and Forevermark showed up in some magazines and newspapers with full page ads.  But