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Well, Donohue is dead on with the Walmart search engine. HOWEVER, you can click one more time and get to about 8000 "Christmas" items.

It's a bit odd that neither Chanukah nor Kwanzaa get you to the same "Holiday" page with the same admonition. Discrimination? Maybe. Inconsistency? DEFINITELY!

It's a bit odd that neither Chanukah nor Kwanzaa get you to the same "Holiday" page with the same admonition. Discrimination? Maybe. Inconsistency? DEFINITELY!

Not really. There are so many more Christmas items (7970) than there are Channukah (200) or Kwanzaa (88) items. The holiday page is an attempt, by the website, give the customer the most popular "Christmas Items" on one part of the site, without having the customer wade through almost 8000 entries.

"It's a bit odd that neither Chanukah nor Kwanzaa get you to the same "Holiday" page with the same admonition."

That's not how I would have designed the page, but I can see why Walmart did it. When secular types use the word Christmas, they're looking for snowmen and reindeer and mistletoe items, not nativity scenes. Walmart wants those shoppers to find what they're looking for, so they include a link to the secular "holiday season" page. When Christians look for an actual Christmas item, we can just hit the link right below it.

Typing in Hanukkah or Kwanzaa won't lead you to the secular "holiday season" page because *no one* looking for snowmen or reindeer items would think of typing in the names of those holidays (at least not in America---maybe in Israel Hanukkah has been secularized and it's used to describe the "holiday season").