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Please, retailers, enjoy the rest of the summer! Tan, grill, softball, camp out, and eat watermelon until you are bloated by the sheer pleasure of it all and can do no more than lay on a beach in the late summer sunlight like a Twitter fail whale. Have a mid-day snooze if you like – it’s still summer, after all! But then, don’t be surprised if your sweet dreams are haunted by the ghost of Christmas future . . . that is, by the specter of the coming holiday season. For somewhere, deep down –....