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.