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Safeway to Open on Christmas (The unraveling of an American Tradition?)
The Washington Post ^ | 12/11/04 | mek1959

Posted on 12/11/2004 5:45:15 AM PST by mek1959

Safeway Inc. yesterday said that for the first time, it will open many of its supermarkets on Christmas Day, a move that triggered an angry protest from the union representing the grocer's Washington area employees.

Safeway will become the region's first -- and only -- major supermarket chain to operate stores on Christmas, one of the last holidays observed by U.S. grocers, which now routinely open on Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: christmas; christmasday; culture; family; jesus; safeway; traditions
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To: iconoclast
Yeah, I'm just a dumb quasi-Christian.

Thank God there are smart perfect Christians like you to set the rest of us straight.

201 posted on 12/11/2004 2:50:10 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
I'm just a dumb quasi-Christian.

God only knows what we are ... but I'm inclined to take your word for it.

202 posted on 12/11/2004 3:14:38 PM PST by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: iconoclast
I was repeating your insult toward me for sarcasm purposes which obviously went right over your head.

Merry Christmas.

203 posted on 12/11/2004 3:27:20 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: iconoclast
Would it be closer to the point to presume that you don't care?

No, it wouldn't.

204 posted on 12/11/2004 3:37:20 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: Dog Gone

You didn't confuse me ... your name is legion ... Merry Christmas to you.


205 posted on 12/11/2004 3:37:58 PM PST by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: iconoclast
You're pathetic. I know who Legion was.

You're no Christian. You're some smart-ass fart who thinks it's fine to dish out insults in the name of God. You did one too many, old-timer, and it was way over the line.

May God have mercy on your soul, because I'm in no mood to do so.

206 posted on 12/11/2004 3:55:09 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
I know who Legion was.

"Legion" wasn't anybody. The phrase means "one of many".

I apologize if you were insulted by ANY of my posts.

There is a lesson here for me, believe me.

207 posted on 12/11/2004 4:23:48 PM PST by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: iconoclast
Luke 8:30
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

I thought you were referring to that, and I can't begin to tell you how much offense I was taking to it.

208 posted on 12/11/2004 4:35:37 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Terpfen

that must be it...

or just the fun of saying

PouB-BLIX over and over :)

Gotta get phonetical.....


209 posted on 12/11/2004 9:24:11 PM PST by MikefromOhio (29 days until I can leave Iraq for good....)
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To: mek1959

I'm in Ireland, and the biggest panic of Christmas Day overe here, is that all of the pubs are closed.

Only two days of the year that you can't get a drink in Ireland...Christmas Day and Good Friday!

And I have to say...I like it that way. (Well, I dated a barman for years! *S*)


210 posted on 12/11/2004 9:26:43 PM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: Nuzcruizer
I would say, only Christians can have the day off. Let's take this and turn it around on these anti-Christian/Christmas people. Step backwards with labor rights they have fought for. This is a sure way to errode their support base.

I think you may have a good point!!!

If Muslims are allowed time to pray during work time, well, there are quite a few 'Holy Days of Obligation' in the Catholic Church calandar. A religious work to rule may be what's required! ;-)

211 posted on 12/11/2004 9:30:49 PM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: mek1959
This is one of the most incompressible threads on this board I have read in a long time. But perhaps I've lived in the land of the free dollar (capitalism in CA) too long.
Don't want to shop, stay home! I might need somthing.
212 posted on 12/11/2004 9:40:47 PM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: stands2reason
You seem awfully attached to the world."""

I think that what goes on in the world is important, if that's what you mean. Being Christian doesn't mean living outside of the world, or not caring what goes on in the world. Jesus came into the world, took on human flesh - and by doing so said, in effect, that the here-and-now is important.

213 posted on 12/12/2004 10:28:24 PM PST by freedomdefender
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