They sold halloween decorations!
I saw them putting out Christmas decorations...
on halloween day!... blasphemers.
Posted on 11/10/2005 1:48:18 AM PST by News Hunter
A Catholic advocacy group has launched a national boycott against Wal-Mart, claiming the world's No. 1 retailer has in effect "banned" Christmas, while promoting other seasonal holidays such as Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
But Wal-Mart tells WorldNetDaily it has "absolutely not" banned Christmas, but is just "trying to serve all our customers for the holiday season."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
I'm too old and tired for bluster and upset. Who'd have ever thought logic would become the tool of the lazy.
"In other words, they are attempting to appease everyone--but in the game of political correctness"
Political correctness is doing what you otherwise wouldn't do in order to appease an 'offended' group.
Walmart decided to switch to "holiday" in order to attract the largest possible audience nationwide with their generic promotion.
In other words, they weren't "politically correct" in your favor in worrying about offending people like you who think they have to use 'christmas' instead of holidays.
Like it or not, you are the one who is trying to enforce your own brand of PC here. Walmart is doing what they want to best market their products, and you, of the offended class, are upset they didn't kowtow to your whims.
It's political correctness, just with a different side being the "correct" side. Deal with it.
PC is like a steady drip...it just slowly erodes away at traditional, usually Christian, expressions, until they are somehow gone.
Just go to Target or Costco and see how many things have replaced Christmas with the generic phrase "holiday". In their case it is intentional.
I fear Walmart is beginning down the same path.
As a stock holder, I feel responsible to point out that their current web-marketing will alienate some of their core demographic and hurt sales.
But the largest single demographic for Walmart is Southern and rural.
Why is it good marketing to possibly alienate that demographic?
PC is also doing what you otherwise wouldn't do in order not to offend another group.
The PC crowd has no problems at all offending Christians--they revel in it.
But that doesn't necessarily mean this is PC. On the other hand one must remember that Christmas isn't the only holiday that generate revenue in this time period, and as long as everybody's money is still green retailers will be chasing all of it. I don't think the web design should alienate anyone, I think it's just there and some folks get too touchy.
I said nothing about offending non-Cristians and thus I bleieve you are missing my point altogether.
There are various and sundry holidays between now and the 1st of the year, not all are religious nor are all Christian, however the vast majority of people, regardless of belief or non-belief still refer to it as the Christmas season in the same generic way as the term holiday season. My point is though, these are the type people that will type "Christmas" into a search feature as opposed to Kwanza or Ramadan or whatever.
Granted. Sorry if, in defending my point (or attempting to), I missed yours.
It is probably too early to tell if this is PC. If, on the other hand, Walmart corporate headquarters bans the Salvation Army (like Target did last year), or if they increasingly have shelves with lots of cheery "Holiday Trees" or the like, as Target and Costco do, that PC is running amok at Bentonville.
yeah....it all makes sense to a certain extent. And the more that we find evidence to the contrary, you would wish whomever is starting this could come up with a better story....
"sniff sniff....isn't this out of a certain playbook??
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Sure is...the one where true Americans are against such nonsense just because it provides profit.
It's not too early to tell if this is PC at all. The word "Christmas" is all over the place. I'm sure where the manufacturers are the same the items will be the same, if Target has a "Holiday Tree" and WalMart is buying from the same company they'll have a "Holiday Tree" too, though everything on their website (a smaller selection that the Target site) is a "Christmas Tree".
Of course since it's the same stuff at WalMart as anywhere else it's no more likely to be the result of child labor there than anywhere else.
"child and slave labor and deceptive business practices mean nothing to you?"
Care to elaborate on the 'slave labor' and 'child labor' please?
No apology necessary. We are both looking at this in a different way. Just becaus we disagree, doesn't mean that either of us is right or wrong.
Pick your battles wisely, folks. You can buy all the Christmas themed items you could shake a stick at in Wal-Mart. Now if they stopped carrying those items at all, then we might have something about which to complain.
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