volition wrote
Nhicks, "commerce" in the way you're using it actually just means the general demands of society, for if consumers didn't truly want it, shops wouldn't do it. There's not really anything being hijacked, except for your own sense of how things should be, which doesn't really apply to other people.

It's not the general demands of society.
It's decided by backroom people whom we don't know and who are not accountable to the consumer for the decsions they make.
For example you try buying christmas mince pies during the 12 days of christmas.
Bakers Delight and Brumby's cease baking them on Christmas eve and then if you want them during christmas season you need to have stockpiled them.
Who makes the demand cease for mince pies suddenly cease?
Why it's commerce of course.
Why do they decide to do such things?
Because they can and do.

Are you or I part of their decision making process.

Why can't you buy winter clothes in summer, society's demands or commerce's decision making process out of your reach and mine.

Don't fool yourself, you are no more free to buy what you want when you want than anyone else.
It's not a conspiracy, but neither is it value free consumer driven decsion making.