MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — As Halloween products like décor, costumes and candy begin appearing in major retail stores, you might have thought to yourself, "isn't it a little early?"

John Saldanha, Sears Chair in Global Supply Chain Management and director of the Wehrle Global Supply Chain Lab at the WVU John Chambers College of Business and Economics, talked to WVU Today about factors such as strategies and predictions these national stores follow and make.

"Retailers start ordering holiday items in November or even October of the previous year. They start shipping those items January through March, and they start getting them June through August," Saldanha explained. "Those items traditionally would have sat in warehouses, but by moving them onto shelves much sooner than they used to,

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