Posted on 12/11/2004 5:45:15 AM PST by mek1959
Safeway Inc. yesterday said that for the first time, it will open many of its supermarkets on Christmas Day, a move that triggered an angry protest from the union representing the grocer's Washington area employees.
Safeway will become the region's first -- and only -- major supermarket chain to operate stores on Christmas, one of the last holidays observed by U.S. grocers, which now routinely open on Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
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What a crack pot post. You should be able to run your business how you want uless you are a clueless socialist that doesn't even know they support command economies.
Obviously it is, or this thread wouldn't be happening - - Safeway is leading the way by treating Christmas like another regular retail day. More stores will follow, and the streets and retail traffic will be as busy here on Dec 25 as it is in Tehran or Tripoli or Damascus, where Dec 25 is just another business day.
What bothers me is people who feel like they need corporate help to celebrate a religious holiday. Your feeling about Christmas should not have anything to do with what others are doing that day. Your need to make everybody celebrate in order for you to have a real Christmas is a sad sign about what Christmas means to you.
My wife also works at a hospital, and she works every other holiday, but on the holidays she works, I drive her to work.
While she is at work, I am preparing the meals.
And I should be able to criticize businesses that show disrespect for Christmas and our cultural traditions by opening on Dec 25, as if they were in a Moslem country. I have the freedom to criticize them, and don't tell me I don't.
The two income family is a result of this want for the newest thing. It has driven the price of housing to the heights of absurdity. It has devalued the dollar so that people think nothing of making and spending a $100,000 a year. If one was to take the amount of gold that say, a thousand dollars could buy, and go back to 1900, it would buy nearly exactly the same things as today, only it would cost 1/100th. I know the houses now are nicer and bigger, that is because of the invention of power tools and production lines, but what people flat out NEED is the same price in sweat as it has always been. My point is, a roof over your head still costs the same as a hundred years ago, no matter how long and fast you keep the hamster wheel turning.
We as a people, have been sold a bill of goods, to make retailers and manufacturers that ONE more dollar than they made last year. The result is, children are raised by a system that worships socialism and they come home to an empty house. I for one live in it, play the same game as most of you, but see it as the farce that it is.
Safeway staying open for Christmas, won't be the end of civilization as we know it, that has already happened.
You also have a right to believe in Santa Marx.... or was that Carl Marx... or was it Grocho?
Christmas is a holiday not a mandate.
I'm not even going to be in the country this Christmas, so I won't be patronizing any American business that day. I guess I'll have a guilt-free Christmas.
what you just described seems like capitalism. Catering to customers, where did they come up with that!
Here in Spain everything is closed on Sundays. Well, almost everything, tourist souvenir shops are usually open and of course restaurants.
There are several sundays during the year that the government OKs, and stores can be open. i don't know if it's such a good system either.
No, not every thread about something which gets someone's panties in a wad is about something which is a real threat.
No, you're just saying that Safeway = TALIBAN if they choose to remain open on a day you don't like. And that is silly and ignorant.
I say "use the market" - by CRITICIZING retailers who would treat Christmas with the same disrespect that they do in Muslim countries, by staying open.
Criticize all you like. But don't be surprised when you get your criticism thrown right back in your face by those Freepers you personally attack by calling them America's Taliban for disagreeing with you.
You, however, are JUSTIFYING Safeway acting like a Moslem business.
More silliness and ignorance. When are you going to stop the name calling?
So you're using the market to give them an "atta boy".
The free market punishes or rewards based on what it will do, not on what you wish it to do. Accept it.
We'll have more and more businesses ignoring Christmas and opening on Dec 25, if there are a lot of folks like you who justify their actions.
And the free market will punish those businesses if they do. Or it will reward them if they do. You have no say other than your own shopping habits in what the free market does. If you don't like a business opening on Christmas Day, THEN DON'T GO. But spare the rest of us the holier-than-thou whining and stop calling the rest of us Taliban-esque building bombers with curly-toed shoes for disagreeing with you, please.
Turn off your lights. The guys at the power plant would like to have Christmas off, also.
I hereby nominate that for the Melodramatic Hall of Fame.
Most excellent.
I never used the word Taliban. I pointed out the FACT that Moslem countries they don't respect Christmas and stores stay open on Dec 25. You're comfortable with importing that Moslem tradition to the US. I'm not.
This isn't the end times, pal....
They figure they'll have customers. I know when I have been traveling up to family on Christmas, we've been thankful to find a gas station open that was making a good amount on such a big travel day. And of course, many a time, people have wished they could run up because they forgot something or other for their family dinner. It won't be packed, perhaps, but the customers who do go will be saying Thank Goodness you were open!"
I do run a business, and I close Sundays and holidays and Saturday afternoon. ( I'm the only one here on Saturday)
I could care less for the Saturday and Sunday business. Sure, I get the odd customer who says "but I have to work all week, Saturday is my only day to get things done".
I say, "I work all week too, and Saturday is the only day I have to get my stuff done too".
The almighty dollar isn't the only important thing in life you know.
Yet that's exactly what you want to do, except you want to do it from the Christian side.
You are the one who wants to import a muslim idea. Ironic, ain't it?
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