John Lewis: Christmas decorations are put up at London store 79 DAYS before December 25th It seems that retail shops start gearing up for Christmas earlier and earlier every year and John Lewis is no exception, dusting off their Christmas decorations 79 days before December 25. More than eight miles of decorations including 250,000 lights, 5,000 stars and 4,000 black and white cone trees have been shipped in to bring Christmas cheer to shoppers. More than nine miles of wire has also been brought in to hold the huge amount of ornaments in place. Teams of 30 technicians busily worked overnight to transform John Lewis department stores across the country into festive wonderlands. In the flagship Oxford Street store, technicians abseiled across the store's atrium, stringing up lights and arranging paper Christmas trees and stars. Tis the season, already: Technicians hang high above the ground floor of the Oxford St John Lewis store, stringing up lights and paper cone Christmas trees Sky high: The technicians abseiled the Oxford Street store's high atrium as teams of 30 busily worked overnight to transform stores across the UK into a festive winter wonderland Christmas comes early: Technicians go to great lengths (and heights) to decorate the Oxford Street store, hanging from abseiling ropes as they decorate the huge store Christmas counting: More than eight miles of decorations including 250,000 lights, 5,000 stars, 4,000 black and white cone trees and over nine miles of wire to keep ornaments in place have been shipped in to bring Christmas cheer to shoppers Bundles of baubles: The huge Oxford Street store is one of many across the UK which was decorated overnight Christmas is just around the corner? Christmas is 79 days away but that didn't stop John Lewis getting the festive decorating underway Suspended Season's Greeting: The technicians get in the Christmas cheer, smiling as they work at beautifying the flagship Oxford Street store