[icwhatudo]

Wondering what "holidays" Loews has decorations for? Lets take a look:

Loews website search field is on upper left:

Enter the word Holiday and....175 results found for "Holiday"
Enter the word Christmas and....175 results found for "Christmas"
Enter the word Kwanza and....0 results found for "Kwanza"
Enter the word Hanukkah and....0 results found for "Hanukkah"
Enter the word Ramadan and....0 results found for "Ramadan"
Enter the word Thanksgiving and....0 results found for "Thanksgiving"
Enter the word New Years and....0 results found for "New Years"

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Loews competition HOME DEPOT apparently had no trouble with "proofing errors" and features "Christmas" trees front and center on its home page. Home Depot also makes use of the term "holiday" for decorations but then they actually do offer other holiday decorations unlike Loews. One thing forcing the issue for many companies is that GE is calling their artificial trees "Christmas trees" on large attached tags and prerecorded display advertisements.

BEST BUY this year has ditched the term "holiday" and simply gone with what they consider the big three: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza on their signs and gift cards.

TARGET is apparently honoring their promise and actually uses the term Christmas on the front cover of their latest catalog.

WALMART also seems more willing than before to use the term Christmas by calling its entire decoration department "The Christmas Shop".

[Slapshot68]

CYA, nothing more. I’ll bet they’re redoing their tv and radio ads as we speak.

[icwhatudo]

Yep, I know...its Lowe's Home Improvement. If a Mod could help me out I'd appreciate it.

[edcoil]

Always easier to ask forgiveness then permission.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Bravo Sierra. If no one had complained, they’d have gotten away with it and precedent would have been set forever.

[AU72]

Festivus is being slighted!

[steve-b]

The never-ending search for something to be offended about continues....

[KarlInOhio]

Proofing error? A proofing error is if one page is advertising Chirstmas Trres. Family Tree is not an error in proofreading.

[nina0113]

Looking at the pages at the AFA link, I’d guess they were trying to market to Jewish customers as well - that blue & silver one - but without actually saying so, since there’s no such thing as a Hanukah tree (no, nor a bush either). Hence, “family trees.” I do wonder what the upside-down one is - wiccan, maybe?

[steve8714]

Target’s TV ads are only tangentially Christmassy.

[newgeezer]

Enter the word Kwanza and....0 results found for "Kwanza"

Yeah, and spelling it properly likely wouldn't help, either.

[FReepaholic]

Company where I work is allowing employees to dress casual on several days for "Winter Event Celebration".

Um, just what "event" are we celebrating?

We're in Florida so it can't be snow.

[FMFreeper]

I sure hope that there isn’t an early cut and run in the War on Christmas again this year. The Holiday Bowl always gets a pass even though it is played only a few days after Christmas. The Godless NCAA needs to stop making Touchdown Jesus cry.

[flat]

WELL the orlando target that i go to has a big MERRY CHRISTMAS banner prominently displayed in the middle of the concourse of thier store...

[Churchillspirit]

Yes, Target is acknowledging Christmas this year - big banners inside the store "Merry Christmas"

Christmas music being played at Barnes & Noble.

Sometimes the good guys do win.

[ladyjane]

Last year I tried to buy a Christmas gift certificate at Lowes. They didn’t have any. They had Holiday gift certificates. The manager explained that they didn’t want to offend anybody.

[MayflowerMadam]

Our Home Depot flyer today was advertising “Miracle Trees”. The photo sure looked like a Christmas Tree to me, but it might be another case of a poor typist or inferior proofreader. I can see how easy it would be to think you’re typing “c-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s” but end up with “m-i-r-a-c-l-e”. They’re so close. Sheesh.