Posted on 12/05/2006 1:51:33 PM PST by Coleus
Gap, which owns Old Navy, Banana Republic, Forth & Towne and Piperlime, has become the latest politically correct retailer, intentionally censoring the use of "Christmas" in their in-store, online and printed advertising.
Instead of referring to the season as Christmas, Gap instead uses the word "holiday." As hard as we tried, AFA could not find a single instance in which Gap-owned stores use the term "Christmas." Not a single time!
When one Old Navy store manager was asked by AFA if the word Christmas was in his store, he answered, "We have a lot of Christmas gifts in our stores, but the word Christmas is not used here. Everything is 'holiday.'"
Gap wants you to do your Christmas shopping with them, but they don't want to mention the Reason for the season. Gap doesn't want to offend non-Christians by using Christmas. The fact that their censoring the use of Christmas might offend Christians seems to be of no importance.
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I fell out of the GAP a long time ago.
Merry Christmas.
Gap and Old Navy are over-priced feeders for Walmart.
"dang, I just bought my son and hubby a top at GAP today! If I had seen this I wouldn't have!"
You should return it and explain why.
Christmas is clearly the holiday that is being celebrated now. Those who refuse to acknowledge that need to be sent a message. In a lot of cases, that message will be in declining store receipts. In other cases, that message will be delivered on the spot by people simply expressing a wish for a Merry Christmas. It is true that this is also the season of Chanuka and Kwanza. But Chanuka gets a fair representation, and is welcomed just about everywhere. As for Kwanza, give me a feakin' break! What a sham! What a hoax! This is no real holiday! Kwanza is a fraud! Only fools with no knowledge of history could support it.
I told my wife to quit buying me Old Navy Clothes. The men's clothes are all under sized by a half to a full size.
I hate nothing more than having to return clothing after Christmas. I'd much rather receive a cute paperweight that I can keep, over an attractive expensive sweater that I need to reschedule a Saturday morning around, and the only sweaters they have left after Christmas are size XXX SMALL so I wind up getting seven packages of undershirts just so I can get the hell out of that bedlam.
It took a while to convince SirKit that Gift Cards were a fine gift for me. I don't mind shopping; he hates it, except for eBay, which he can spend hours perusing. But the difference there, is he can do it sitting in his Relax the Back chair with a hot cup of coffee or a cold brew! ;o)
The next to the best gift my husband ever gave me was a 1000 dollar Walmart gift certificate:')
Not anymore.
ya know, I think I will! I didn't need either item to be honest and can get the same thing somewhere else.
"ya know, I think I will! I didn't need either item to be honest and can get the same thing somewhere else."
Good for you!
I don't know. Maybe because I'm unfamiliar with the "Church of Retail"? Maybe because I don't know the proper form for offering prayers to the Chinese plastic stuff on Aisle 7?
I see nothing wrong with celebrating our Savior's earthly birth.
Me either. That's why I go to church.
If I shop at a store that is ashamed to acknowledge this holiday , would He be ashamed of me?
This opens a whole can of worms:
-- Would who be ashamed of you? And for what?
(If you're talking about the CEO of Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, etc., I don't think you need to worry. I suspect they'll forgive all if you just spread a little green around the store.)(If you're talking about Jesus Christ, shouldn't you be more concerned about whether He is ashamed by the equation of his birth with profligate consumerism and greed?)
-- Why are you calling Christmas a "holiday" here if your point is that it's insulting to say "Happy Holidays"?
-- And are you sure that stores are "ashamed" to acknowledge "this holiday"? Do you think maybe their motivation isn't shame, but maximization of profits?
No Christ. No Christmas.
Correction. According to this thread -- no shopping, no Christmas.
Male attendents in their "coed" dressing rooms is why we don't shop there. Anyway, how can one expect a store to acknowledge Christmas when most of its merchandise and marketing is lacking in reverence to the Almighty from the get go. Why do we wait until they change the wording of their most profitable "season" to boycott them?
Stores like the GAP, Old Navy, etc. are clearly saying they believe Christmas is offensive (or why stop using it? It certainly isn't because they don't want to sell their products at this time of year).
Why does it bother you, then, if some Christians want to avoid stores that find them offensive.
Feel better? :')
The Book of Catalogs, Chapters 7 and 11 -- I think. Or was it the Book of Coupons?
Will you stop and listen to yourself for a second? You manage to sound EXACTLY like the Queer Nation freaks who treat anything other than 100% approval and exaltation of the homosexual lifestyle, or not supporting "marriage" for gay couples, with being bigoted against homosexuals.
Or they're trying to sell the most stuff to the most people. Hard to fathom, I know.
Why does it bother you, then, if some Christians want to avoid stores that find them offensive.
Maybe because those same Christians aren't just "avoiding" the stores, but are instead backhandedly incorporating retail sales into Christian theology while pushing people around and telling them what they can and cannot say?
But won't that piss off the Chinamen?
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