Christmas Zombies Shoppers

Yay, it's Christmas time again and all the stores are filled with random zombie shoppers. In my line of work (paid, business type, real job stuff) I have to deal with retail staff on a daily basis. My job as a Sony Product Specialist/Trainer means I have to try and push the Sony propaganda down the throats of everyday, living, breathing, lamenting, struggling retailers.
Right now my job is so overwhelmingly difficult because they are having to deal with the sudden influx of mindless, red-eyed, drooling consumer zombies. All shuffling about with no identified agenda, scouring the shelves in search for gift ideas for which seem so distant. They leave with them a trail of inadequate thought, a stream of melancholic disappointment as they disappear into another row of fixtures... forever sighing.

The retail staff are just as zombie-like. Is it infectious? This habit? I see it happen right before my very eyes. They are coherent enough as we begin our discussions however, they break away to 'serve' one of these lifeless bodies, only to return with minds numbed, bags below the eyes swollen and speech turned slurred and inaccurate. But why am I immune to the seemingly toxic state that spreads through this field this season? Am I a superhero? A deity, perhaps?
As much as I would like to think so, I am afraid not. Maybe I have a hardened mind? I am incapable of hypnosis, I once came to realise. I went to an NLP seminar (convinced by my Drummer... mistake!) and watched on in awe as a room full of about 400 people all became hypnotized before my very eyes. My bass-player (convinced to come also) was staring up at the stage with glassy eyes, in a state I had never seen before. I was somewhat scared. Hey, maybe these shoppers are just hypnotized? But what would be the cause of such hypnosis?
Perhaps I will transform also, when it is my turn to shop? Maybe I will skip Christmas this year... I wonder if I could?

Too many questions!