Posted on 12/19/2010 6:10:31 PM PST by william clark
My self-explanatory e-mail to the Corporate Petsmart website:
"Yesterday I made what will be my last Petsmart purchase, at your store in Chino Hills, and tomorrow I will be divesting myself of the Petsmart stock that I own.
I'm not one of these people who has a chip on their shoulder about the use of the phrase "Happy Holidays" as a means of being inclusive during this season, unless it's accompanied by a PC-based prohibition against employees saying "Merry Christmas" when similarly greeted. However, when I arrived at your store, I was greeted by a sign that said (listed top to bottom): "Happy Kwanzaa, Joyeux Noel, Happy Hannukah"
Now, it's bad enough that your corporation, like many well-intentioned individuals, has been duped into recognizing the fraudulent pseudo-African holiday created as a poke in the eye to Christianity by a racist, sadistic, convicted sex offender, but to place this much more recently created "holiday" above Christmas and Hannukah is something of an insult to Christians and Jews. You can't claim it to be a chronological order based on when the celebrations occur, nor is it an alphabetical sequence.
Of course, even more insulting is that using the term "Christmas" on your sign is something you apparently can't bring yourselves to do. Oh, you have the Santa photo ops, but displaying the name Christ seems to be a problem, even if it's only within the name of the holiday created to celebrate his birth; hence your use of "Joyeux Noel." Now, if the sign on the Chino Hills store was intended for a store in Quebec, and the shipment of promo materials got switched, then I guess that's a big "oops" on my part; however, if that were the case, then somebody in Marketing got really sloppy by using the English word "Happy" in connection with the other two greetings on the sign.
Given the long odds of this having been accidental, then I must conclude that a conscious decision was made to avoid using the word "Christmas." Cowardly is probably the mildest adjective I can apply to such a decision.
Anyhow, since I don't do business with companies that have such disrespect for me and my faith, I am done with Petsmart. I can buy the same dog food at Wal-Mart, and any other pet products I need I can certainly purchase there or somewhere online."
I never have liked Pet Smart. Their prices are higher than anyone in the area and they do not cater to manufacturers unless they bend over to their demands. As far as I’m concerned, then can close an just go away.
Good for you. Just got back from Target and it seems they finally got the message-”Merry Christmas” was everywhere!
Good for you! Let them know how you and if they do not correct their ways to your satisfaction, take your business and investment elsewhere.
I see you live on the French side of town.
Prices at Petsmart have always been significantly higher than anywhere else. I wonder how they've managed to stay in business as long as they have. Everything they sell can be bought cheaper elsewhere (for instance, farm and feed stores).
PetSmart is a franchise operation.
My local PetSmart has had a Santa Claus available for pet Christmas photographs! (I guess they must have missed the memo.)
Muzzies don’t like dogs anyway, so what’s the point Petsmart? Doesn’t sound very smart to me.
Oh, they had Santa at the one I visited to. I guess between photos he was hollering “Ho ho ho. Joyeux Noel!”
That may be, but the promotional materials and signage would be standardized by the corporation.
They suck in the city people that don’t want to shop around. I bet most of them have never been to a feed store to buy their pets food. Hell, I can buy my German Sherherds food, which is dam good, for under $30.00. At pet smart the same food is over $40.00. As a matter of fact it is closer to $50.00. I don’t like to played for a fool.
“...visited, too.” This is what multi-tasking does to me.
I have cats and the cat condos they use as scratching posts cost about $100 at Petsmart. I bought the same kind/size at my local grocery store for $39.00. The cat food (same brand name) is about 70% less expensive at my grocery store (when it's on sale). I have an aversion to paying for someone else's fancy sports car/lifestyle off my hard-earnmed dollars. In this economy, I have no sympathy whatsoever for people who buy things where convenient, rather than shopping (studying the newspaper for sales) to make their dollars go further.
Same with our cats. The same cat food I get for under $21 a bag there (Purina Special Care stuff, I forget which) costs a ton more at PetSmart.
>>Oh, they had Santa at the one I visited to. I guess between photos he was hollering “Ho ho ho. Joyeux Noel!”<<
You have got to be freakin’ kiddin’ me!!!!
I’m really near Canada, we get French Canadian stations and no one around here says Joyeux Noel.
In Chino, I would expect Chinese or Spanish.
Pets Mart is NOT very Pet SMART!
I find the prices at PetCo higher than PetsMart. The dog & cat food is cheaper than the supermarket, but other supplies & accessories are more than Walmart, if you can get them there.
As for Joyeux Noel, haven’t noticed at my local store, but it’s cetainly not acceptable as a substitute for Merry Christmas.
It has been really nice to go into stores and hear religious Christmas carols. I used to hate hearing Frosty the Snowman and the other secular songs, They are so empty and vapid! It’s almost as if companies have realized that the roof won’t cave in because the word Christmas has been spoken!
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