[rarestia]

Just bought a new refrigerator last night with the missus at “Black Friday” pricing. We priced it on the web, printed it out, took it into the store, and they honored the price. Didn’t have to wait in long lines or get up at 4 AM to do it.

This over-commercialization of the Christmas season is becoming destructive to the fabric of America. We’re supposedly family-centric as a nation but retailers are opening their doors at 10 PM on Thanksgiving night for shoppers.

At some point the public will become so oversaturated that the entire meaning of Christmas and the season will be lost to commercial interests and a chase to make business budgets break even in Q4. It will become increasingly difficult and the fervor will grow to a fever pitch as businesses start losing quarter-after-quarter of revenue to Obama’s taxes and losses of jobs and incomes by the consumers.

Elections have consequences.

[MissMagnolia]

Never have and never will be out “running with the wolves” on Black Friday. This year, I am pushing for “no presents” for Christmas except for the two youngest children in the family. The adults have been putting their name in a hat at Thanksgiving & drawing one person for whom to buy a gift; however, it’s pretty much lost all meaning. My folks and my in-laws are all quite elderly & with major health issues ... I’m thinking for one or more of them, this will be their last Christmas so family time together is most precious and I plan to work hard to make sure this Christmas is memorable ... and not because of anything material. The reason for the season, God’s greatest gift, is also the reason why I do not fear for my family when they depart this earth, so that is what we will focus on.

[oh8eleven]

At some point the public will become so oversaturated that the entire meaning of Christmas and the season will be lost to commercial interests
Will become? Man, we passed that point many moons ago (a little Indian lingo there). And it's not just Christmas.
Thanksgiving itself is totally overwhelmed by retailers, and then there's my "favorite" - the former Decoration Day - the 30th of May.
Today, the Memorial Day holiday falls on whatever Monday happens to end the month of May. How convenient.
Adding insult to injury are all the ignorant, greedy retailers' ads that proclaim - Happy Memorial Day!
If it were up to me, I'd shut every store until noon.

[Kartographer]

Seems to me your post lost all power with the first line:

"Just bought a new refrigerator last night with the missus at “Black Friday” pricing."

[stars & stripes forever]

At some point the public will become so oversaturated that the entire meaning of Christmas and the season will be lost

Christmas movies on television throughout the year have completely secularized this sacred holiday. I would dare say that the majority of American children do not know the true meaning of Christmas. However, they do know about every episode of Harry Potter.

[SaraJohnson]

At some point the public will become so oversaturated that the entire meaning of Christmas and the season will be lost to commercial interests

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That happened a long time ago for most Americans of Christian heritage. The loss of the free, ethical and good aspects of American culture have been erased and replaced by humanism - self serving materialism. It’s like a machine culture.