To: discostu
Thanks for a substantive reply.
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.
223 posted on
11/10/2005 1:45:07 PM PST by
twntaipan
(Does Walmart pander to the politically correct?)
To: twntaipan
As you've been told many times now, this has nothing to do with PC. Who goes shopping online and enters "Christmas" into a search engine? It's a completely artificial construct by somebody looking to find fault. LOOKING to find offense at any perceived slight or use of the wrong word is the EPITOMY of PC, you just want your kind of PC.
Look around the site. There is Christmas stuff everywhere.
226 posted on
11/10/2005 1:51:11 PM PST by
HairOfTheDog
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To: twntaipan
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.
227 posted on
11/10/2005 1:52:29 PM PST by
discostu
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