Stores that do NOT Ban Christmas

AFA ^ | 11/29/07 | E-Mat

[E-Mat]

I get all these AFA alerts about stores that ban Christmas. How about a list or a link to a list of shopping alternatives who do not ban Christmas?

Here's a few examples of web sites who were not so ashamed to allow the word Christmas to appear on their front page. (Searching the page for text does not always work, e.g. Starbucks mentions Christmas on their front page, but it's in an image.):

http://www.gifts.com/ http://www.walmart.com/ http://www.target.com/ (Surpise!) http://www.ftd.com/ http://www.lenox.com/ http://www.winebasket.com http://www.starbucks.com/

[E-Mat]

Please add some good stores to this list. (Not just online shopping)

[E-Mat]

Clickable:
http://www.gifts.com/
http://www.walmart.com/
http://www.target.com/ (Surpise!)
http://www.ftd.com/
http://www.lenox.com/
http://www.winebasket.com
http://www.starbucks.com/

[PROCON]

Always get my daughter a Starbucks gift card for Christmas, guess I will do so again.

Thanks for the post!

[lookout88]

Buy from Sears. The most pro military company I can find

[PROCON]

I do like Sears, thanks!

[Always Right]

http://www.target.com/ (Surpise!)

They did ban the salvation army. I am not sure they are that Christmas friendly by choice.

[Ingtar]

Sears has a “holiday sale” on their site.

[yarddog]

I noticed in the Radio Shack ad, they are singing a Christian Christmas Carol. Actually it surprised me, we have gotten so anti-Christian.

[cmsgop]

Starbucks???

Gimmie a Break, support a family coffee shop over these PC Turd Donkeys

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Just saw an ad on the tube for Kohl’s “Holiday Mega-Sale”...

Pffffttttt.....

[gusopol3]

Hark the Herald Angels Sing including all the words"Glory to the newborn king."

[paudio]

I thought they changed the lyrics?

[brewer1516]

Thank you. My wife and I own a small drive-thru coffee shop.
We have many customers who will NEVER go to Charbucks because of their politics (and they have horrible service).

For what it’s worth, we opened December 14, 2006. Charbuck’s opened 3 months later across the street. We have an intense dislike for that company.

[Andonius_99]

You're not calling the "Charbucks" because you burnt them down by any chance are you? LOL

[gusopol3]

How about the Acura ad starting “whoever started all this giving is better than receiving stuff...” How about Jesus Christ himself:Acts 20:35 (King James Version)

35:I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

[dbwz]

I am not sure they are that Christmas friendly by choice.

What do you mean, "by choice"? Do you mean they may have been coerced into mentioning Christmas?

[airborne]

I’d support my kitchen coffeepot over Star-yucks!

[captjanaway]

My sChristmas hopping trip is SAVED! Off to the WalMart then to Starbucks for cappucino!

(all I want for Christmas is “An Inconvenient Book” by Glenn Beck)

[Oshkalaboomboom]

So far I’ve seen Salvation Army bell ringers at JC Pennys, Walmart and Kroger. I believe Best Buy still doesn’t mention Christmas but Target does, I guess they got hammered pretty badly over their Salvation army ban.

[Miss Didi]

Lord & Taylor has the most beautiful window display this year featuring the sights, sounds, tastes, etc. of Christmas. Also Overstock.com’s TV ads are all about Christmas presents.

[stillonaroll]

At Wal-Mart the other night, they were playing Christmas songs over the PA system. Not “Frosty the Snowman,” or “Rudolph...” but real Christmas carols.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Video:

2007 - Lord & Taylor Christmas windows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipydmt_3WMc&feature=related

[brewer1516]

Funny, but no. I had a new customer call them that after he handed a full Starbucks cup through my window and said “can you make me another one of these...this is horrible!”

He never went back.

[Miss Didi]

Aren’t they lovely? Thanks for posting that. The word Christmas is even written in each window. I made a point of thanking the Greeter for their beautiful Christmas spirit.

[Pontiac]

For what it’s worth, we opened December 14, 2006. Charbuck’s opened 3 months later across the street. We have an intense dislike for that company.

I have seen this happen.

My favorite Coffee Shop was killed in this fashion.

Seems to be Starbuck’s modus operandi to find a successful Coffee shop build a store as close as possible and steal their business.

[MarkL]

I was in Walmart the other night, and they were playing Christmas music. I heard 3 or 4 songs, including carols, and then, guess what! I heard a Chanukah song, in both Hebrew AND English! Woo Hoo! I've never heard one of those in public!

Frankly, it doesn't matter to me if there are Chanukah songs or not. This is "Christmas Season," and even though I'm Jewish, it just doesn't feel right without Salvation Army Bell-Ringers and Christmas music. I have never understood how people like this idiot feel the need to claim that their religion must have "equal time" in public. And then make everyone else miserable while stoking their own egos.

Mark

[samson1097]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=christmas+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.starbucks.com%2F

Starbucks has a Christmas Blend of coffee, but otherwise no mention of Christmas anywhere.

And even that might not be safe for long:
http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/pressdesc.asp?id=801
“Starbucks also welcomes the much-anticipated return of Starbucks® Christmas Blend (also available as Holiday Blend)”

[KoRn]

Good to know. Thanks for posting.

[goldfinch]

A Target checkout clerk cheerfully told me that they were allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas’ this year...so I guess Target has had a bit of a change of heart.

[Fletcher J]

I hate Starbuck’s overpriced coffee. However, I read somewhere (probably on FreeRepublic or in BusinessWeek) that the presence of a Starbucks shop tends to increase sales at the locally-owned coffeeshops, rather than decrease them... (Presumably because it’s raising awareness of gourmet coffees)

Has that been your experience?

Fletcher J

[restornu]

It has gotten to the point of heard “Happy Holiday” I felt like calling it what these hyjackers have done instead of Happy Holiday call it what they really mean...

Happy Humanist day!

[AmericanInTokyo]

I have one for you.

Mitsukoshi Department Stores

Seriously.

If we expanded the list to add Japanese retail outlets HERE IN JAPAN, your list of firms allowing "Christmas" << クリスマス >>　 here would go on and on and on for many, many pages.

In so many years of either living here or visiting here, I have NOT seen one instance of "Happy Holidays" except for the first one about one week ago near Tokyo. Same goes for "Seasons Greetings" in terms of large public store signs, as I recall.

I heard "Oh Night Divine" fully blasting on a PA speaker at a local "7-Eleven" shop just last night as I was getting a soda; when I walked in it was in the middle of blaring "The Night...when CHRIST was born".

Can you imagine at a 7-11 in Christian America? An ACLU or C.A.I.R. lawsuit would be right around the corner.

--AiT, Tokyo (Merry Christmas!)

[AmericanInTokyo]

FR Moral Absolutes Ping (?)

[Joya]

There was a Salvation Army bell ringer at Sam’s Club.

[jackibutterfly]

"I heard "Oh Night Divine" fully blasting on a PA speaker at a local "7-Eleven" shop just last night as I was getting a soda; when I walked in it was in the middle of blaring "The Night...when CHRIST was born".

Just to let you know, the song is "O, Holy Night". Merry Christmas! :-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

uh oh oops

[Wil H]

If someone wants to help me set up up a website I had registered “Christmassupporters.com” to do precisely that but I haven’t have the time to put it together.

[ladyjane]

I tried to buy a Christmas gift card at Lowes the other day. They had only one with a candy cane on it. They had a Hanukha card with a menorrah but nothing that was really Christmas.

Of course they’re the ones who try to sell Family Trees.They can’t bring themselves to call them Christmas trees.

If Lowes can’t even say the word Christmas they will not be where I do my Christmas shopping.

[gidget7]

Radio Shack, and they don’t just support Christmas, they play real Christmas carols on their ads and in their stores!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well, THATS a relief to hear!

Here is a photo from three years ago in Tokyo, right smack in the middle of GINZA area of Tokyo, one of the busiest concentration of department stores and shops in the world... MERRY CHRISTMAS right in the middle of it (a department store itself) for millions to see as they shop.

[gidget7]

Target here gives a few token mentions, like a card or two, and one reference in print only on their tv ads. But the trees and ads still refer to holiday. My sister works at one that just opened and it aggravates her.

Macy’s is another that doesn’t, and Kohl’s is even more generic than Macy’s!

[GATOR NAVY]

I don’t know, that sign at the bottom is advertising a “Holiday Lunch Set”... ;-)

[EDINVA]

Starbux goes so far as to have a CHRISTMAS blend .. whodathnk it?

[Professional]

On a side note, out here in Washington State we have a store called “GI Joe’s”. Sports and auto stuff, been around for a very long time. About a year ago, they dropped the “GI” part, now it’s just “Joe’s”.

Two things here....

One, to do that during a war, is just plain stupid, smacks of anti war liberalism. I have no idea if that is why they did it, but you have to wonder?

The second thing is, what an enormous expense, for no value. For a farily large company to change all their signs, paperwork, business cards, stationary, and on and on, for that? Good grief, that can cost millions of dollars, if not tens of millions for a really big company.

I work for a company that just did a name change, that was really stupid. We are a huge company, and now in some financial trouble. The name change must have cost tens of millions. What a waste. Oh, they are really big on “green” too, and you’d hardly call a silly name change a green thing?

[TheMole]

...I read somewhere (probably on FreeRepublic or in BusinessWeek) that the presence of a Starbucks shop tends to increase sales at the locally-owned coffeeshops, rather than decrease them...

I don't know that I can exactly confirm that, but here's a phenomenon I've seen literally half a dozen times in the area where I live (Vancouver, B.C.) ... a Starbucks opens up in a shopping or business-commercial area and is successful. Soon another coffee shop opens up very close by, and within a short time both places are usually packed.

[Professional]

I just emailed their company, Joe’s, that I think they are stupid and dumb, will never shop there again. Now I feel better.

The store I went to typically, is right by Fort Lewis. Many of GI Joe’s customers are now DEAD, from service to their country in Afghanistan and Iraq. Maybe I’ll picket the store one day too, talk to some GIs going in there.

[nutmeg]

bookmark

[Professional]

Yup, ever notice that one bank, is surrounded by every other bank, usually within a few blocks. The branches seem to just pop up, all around each other.

This is also like bathrooms. There are either tons of them, or you do that buckled hopping thingy. Same goes for pencils and pens, or my coffee cup, or change for that matter. There is a scientific reason for all this, just waiting for a chalkboard...

[TheMole]

Is it possible that GI Joe’s was sued by somebody holding a copyright, such as for the GI Joe doll? BTW, it just occurred to me that I actually bought something once at GI Joe’s in Bend, OR.

[1000 silverlings]

Kohl’s has such garbage. I went to buy boots, they were all made in China from cardboard I swear it.