Christmas and Halloween decorations

Question

The day after Halloween and the day after Christmas, CVS has big discounts on these decorations. Are these decorations used or new? Any way to tell? Sources?

Answer 1

They're new.  They also discount Christmas stuff the day after Thanksgiving, but you don't want to get into that mess.  They aren't discounted because they're used or people returned them; they're discounted because they ordered too much stock and some of it didn't sell.  They don't want to keep it in the stock room for a year.