The ghosts and goblins are everywhere. It's Halloween yet at the same time, it's beginning to look *** lot like Christmas River go. There was *** time that the Christmas shopping season didn't begin until Thanksgiving had passed, but that's quickly becoming *** thing of the past. Does it seem to you like Christmas starts earlier and earlier every year? Yes, it does. Yes, I start thinking about Christmas in July these days. Stores try to get *** jump on the holiday season by dragging out the wreaths in the boxes and the bows here at Macy's. These Christmas decorations went up last week. Ho ho ho. So it may be Halloween but make no mistake. The stockings are hung by the counters with care in hopes that the shoppers soon will be there in Sacramento, Barry Brown for channel three reports.