Retailers might consider the "holiday season" to begin at Thanksgiving Or Halloween. I know that the music that comes from the ceiling at Walgreen's Drug Stores here in California changes to Christmas music at midnight on Halloween.

I think it depends on context. Retailers might consider the "holiday season" to begin at Thanksgiving -- certainly that's the traditional start of the holiday shopping season.

I see. So Thanksgiving is excluded.

I would not necessarily understand it to include Thanksgiving. I would take "holiday season" to mean approximately from December 10 through January 10 at the latest -- more narrowly, from December 24 through January 1. CJ

Does the "Holiday Season" in the US only refer to the period starting from Thanksgiving to New Year? Please advise, Thanks.

I'll wait for confirmation from one more fluent in British English, but I believe you are combining BrE and AmE. In AmE, holidays refers to specific days that the general public doesn't work: "The holidays" = time between

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