Posted on 12/27/2007 2:49:28 AM PST by icwhatudo
With Kwanzaa just starting and New Years still days away, retailer's attempts to be inclusive go right out the window with the annual "after holiday" sales that start on December 26.
Barnes and Noble, in an effort not to offend, refused to use the dreaded C word in pre-Christmas ads. I guess they don't get the idea that running Barnes and Noble's "after holiday" sale starting December 26 kinda lets people know what "holiday" you meant all along.
Kmart goes so far as to have a cartoon in an ad saying to decorations "Lets spend the Holidays together again next year". I guess those "Holiday decorations" and "Holiday lights" they sold really were meant just for Christmas.
Prior to Christmas, Macys ran full page ads listing how many "days to go" but never said days till what.Macys now is touting its "After Christmas" sale.
Bath And Bodyworks is another retailer that seems to be admitting they meant Christmas all along.
While I'm sure others can find more examples, I thought I'd point out just some of the hypocrisy of retailers who claim they use the word holidays "to honor all the holidays this time of year". Funny how that honoring ends December 26.
Muslims have a big problem. The urbanized population of Iran has already become more secular less than thirty years after the Revolution. Other countries will likely follow said trend.
:) Thanks for the laugh!
>>Home Depot had a beautiful nativity scene on some of its gift cards<<
Were they written in English or in Spanish?
One day I was out running errands before CHristmas.
I was very pleased to be LOUDLY told, “Merry CHristmas” by various store personnel. THere must have been quite a lot of backlash from the last 2 years of political “Happy Holidays” crap.
Here's a suggestion. Stop buying stuff for "Holiday" and celebrate Christmas for what it is. No commercial justification for your beliefs is required.
It’s very simple — you either join the global club or get left behind.
Not for nothing, but many Americans are facing the same situation, though without resorting to violence.
Could you be more specific? Are you saying America and other Western nations will have to give up our traditions, our traditional faiths, our culture and identity, to fit into a secularized global regime?
>> Maybe they meant the Greek Orthodox Solstice <<
Bwahahaha!
No Christmas = NO SALE
literally. These retailers are marketing idiots. BEYOND idiots.
They could have tied the gift giving to the three wise men, Christmas joy. Instead they have gone sooooo over the top commerically that they have no way to justify the gifts. It is hard NOT to give a christmas gift. It is super duper easy not to give a generic-whatever-holiday gift.
Holiday is about “like”
Christmas is about “love”
People do not move mountains because they are “in like”.
I live and work in downtown Seattle and it's about a mile and a half walk to work.
Walking from home to work takes me through the retail core of the city.....past Nordstrom, Gap, Banana Republic and Macys, etc.
Nowhere between home and work was the work "Christmas" visible. Nowhere.
Greek Orthodox celebrates Christmas on the 25th like everyone else. (new testament written in Greek and all that)
The word Christmas is used less and less....
Sales plunge lower and lower....
and yet,
stock holders of Federated Department Stores say nothing...
You got it! Whenever someone tells me they’re “spiritual, but not religious” I expect that person to be pretty shallow. And my expectations are usually met.
I've often seen England accused of being virtually run by Muslims on this forum. Yet in my local high street, there's a huge Christmas tree and lots of 'Merry Christmas' signs. And under the tree: a Nativity scene. All put there by local government (ie the Town Council).
Are you saying America and other Western nations will have to give up our traditions, our traditional faiths, our culture and identity, to fit into a secularized global regime?
Not at all. There is no global regime and probably won’t be, but the ability to work with/within other cultures is becoming increasingly important. The common culture being that of business.
Just saw the Burlington Coat factory ad on FOX proclaiming “Now that the holidays are over...” lol.
INTREP
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