Stores that do NOT Ban Christmas

AFA ^ | 11/29/07 | E-Mat

[E-Mat]

I get all these AFA alerts about stores that ban Christmas. How about a list or a link to a list of shopping alternatives who do not ban Christmas?

Here's a few examples of web sites who were not so ashamed to allow the word Christmas to appear on their front page. (Searching the page for text does not always work, e.g. Starbucks mentions Christmas on their front page, but it's in an image.):

http://www.gifts.com/ http://www.walmart.com/ http://www.target.com/ (Surpise!) http://www.ftd.com/ http://www.lenox.com/ http://www.winebasket.com http://www.starbucks.com/

[stillonaroll]

At Wal-Mart the other night, they were playing Christmas songs over the PA system. Not “Frosty the Snowman,” or “Rudolph...” but real Christmas carols.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Video:

2007 - Lord & Taylor Christmas windows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipydmt_3WMc&feature=related

[brewer1516]

Funny, but no. I had a new customer call them that after he handed a full Starbucks cup through my window and said “can you make me another one of these...this is horrible!”

He never went back.

[Miss Didi]

Aren’t they lovely? Thanks for posting that. The word Christmas is even written in each window. I made a point of thanking the Greeter for their beautiful Christmas spirit.

[Pontiac]

For what it’s worth, we opened December 14, 2006. Charbuck’s opened 3 months later across the street. We have an intense dislike for that company.

I have seen this happen.

My favorite Coffee Shop was killed in this fashion.

Seems to be Starbuck’s modus operandi to find a successful Coffee shop build a store as close as possible and steal their business.

[MarkL]

I was in Walmart the other night, and they were playing Christmas music. I heard 3 or 4 songs, including carols, and then, guess what! I heard a Chanukah song, in both Hebrew AND English! Woo Hoo! I've never heard one of those in public!

Frankly, it doesn't matter to me if there are Chanukah songs or not. This is "Christmas Season," and even though I'm Jewish, it just doesn't feel right without Salvation Army Bell-Ringers and Christmas music. I have never understood how people like this idiot feel the need to claim that their religion must have "equal time" in public. And then make everyone else miserable while stoking their own egos.

Mark

[samson1097]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=christmas+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.starbucks.com%2F

Starbucks has a Christmas Blend of coffee, but otherwise no mention of Christmas anywhere.

And even that might not be safe for long:
http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/pressdesc.asp?id=801
“Starbucks also welcomes the much-anticipated return of Starbucks® Christmas Blend (also available as Holiday Blend)”

[KoRn]

Good to know. Thanks for posting.

[goldfinch]

A Target checkout clerk cheerfully told me that they were allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas’ this year...so I guess Target has had a bit of a change of heart.

[Fletcher J]

I hate Starbuck’s overpriced coffee. However, I read somewhere (probably on FreeRepublic or in BusinessWeek) that the presence of a Starbucks shop tends to increase sales at the locally-owned coffeeshops, rather than decrease them... (Presumably because it’s raising awareness of gourmet coffees)

Has that been your experience?

Fletcher J

[restornu]

It has gotten to the point of heard “Happy Holiday” I felt like calling it what these hyjackers have done instead of Happy Holiday call it what they really mean...

Happy Humanist day!

[AmericanInTokyo]

I have one for you.

Mitsukoshi Department Stores

Seriously.

If we expanded the list to add Japanese retail outlets HERE IN JAPAN, your list of firms allowing "Christmas" << クリスマス >>　 here would go on and on and on for many, many pages.

In so many years of either living here or visiting here, I have NOT seen one instance of "Happy Holidays" except for the first one about one week ago near Tokyo. Same goes for "Seasons Greetings" in terms of large public store signs, as I recall.

I heard "Oh Night Divine" fully blasting on a PA speaker at a local "7-Eleven" shop just last night as I was getting a soda; when I walked in it was in the middle of blaring "The Night...when CHRIST was born".

Can you imagine at a 7-11 in Christian America? An ACLU or C.A.I.R. lawsuit would be right around the corner.

--AiT, Tokyo (Merry Christmas!)

[AmericanInTokyo]

FR Moral Absolutes Ping (?)

[Joya]

There was a Salvation Army bell ringer at Sam’s Club.

[jackibutterfly]

"I heard "Oh Night Divine" fully blasting on a PA speaker at a local "7-Eleven" shop just last night as I was getting a soda; when I walked in it was in the middle of blaring "The Night...when CHRIST was born".

Just to let you know, the song is "O, Holy Night". Merry Christmas! :-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

uh oh oops

[Wil H]

If someone wants to help me set up up a website I had registered “Christmassupporters.com” to do precisely that but I haven’t have the time to put it together.

[ladyjane]

I tried to buy a Christmas gift card at Lowes the other day. They had only one with a candy cane on it. They had a Hanukha card with a menorrah but nothing that was really Christmas.

Of course they’re the ones who try to sell Family Trees.They can’t bring themselves to call them Christmas trees.

If Lowes can’t even say the word Christmas they will not be where I do my Christmas shopping.

[gidget7]

Radio Shack, and they don’t just support Christmas, they play real Christmas carols on their ads and in their stores!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well, THATS a relief to hear!

Here is a photo from three years ago in Tokyo, right smack in the middle of GINZA area of Tokyo, one of the busiest concentration of department stores and shops in the world... MERRY CHRISTMAS right in the middle of it (a department store itself) for millions to see as they shop.