[weegee]

Wal-Mart messed up this year as well. They segregated their Christmas items into the PC "holiday" label (other holidays at this point on the calendar were not), greeted customers with "Happy Holidays", and had an employee to reply to an email with a denial of Christmas (brought up the pagan origins of the holiday).

Wal-Mart bends to demands by Catholic League (web site query now changed)

The controversy was sparked when a woman recently complained that Wal-Mart was replacing its "Merry Christmas" greeting with "Happy Holidays."

The woman reportedly received an e-mail response from a customer-service representative, which read: "Walmart is a worldwide organization and must remain conscious of this. The majority of the world still has different practices other than "christmas" which is an ancient tradition that has its roots in Siberian shamanism. The colors associated with "christmas" red and white are actually a representation of of the aminita mascera mushroom. Santa is also borrowed from the Caucuses, mistletoe from the Celts, yule log from the Goths, the time from the Visigoth and the tree from the worship of Baal. It is a wide wide world."

[snip]

Donohue pointed to the company Web site for an example of discrimination against Christmas. If the word "Hanukkah" was typed in the search engine, 200 retail items were returned. The term "Kwanzaa" returned 77. But when "Christmas" was entered, the message said: "We've brought you to our 'Holiday' page based on your search."

Reportedly the policies at Wal-Mart have been changed back, but they have been guilty of some of the same offenses.

[sasafras]

" Reportedly the policies at Wal-Mart have been changed back, but they have been guilty of some of the same offenses."

Big difference - Walmart was smart enought to change their policy Target is not.

I will be shopping Walmart.

[On the Road to Serfdom]

...and had an employee to reply to an email with a denial of Christmas (brought up the pagan origins of the holiday).

A new employee decided to respond to an email this way and was fired. Walmart did not have him do that, which was obvious just from reading the email itself, even before the employee was fired. No corporation would instruct an employee send out an email like that.

The "Walmart hates Christmas" idea is among the most pathetic of all the WalMart bashing talking points, and that says a lot.

[fight_truth_decay]

"Happy Holidays", and had an employee to reply to an email with a denial of Christmas (brought up the pagan origins of the holiday).

Untrue. Kirby took that on his own to correspond in that manner with a customer. 'Holiday greetings' are to extend from Thanksgiving thru New Years. Also if you read the facts on this "Greenwald type" reporting, one would see Kirby was fired immediately and management responded they had never denied any employee the option of wishing anyone Merry Christmas. And you easily can prove that fact by offering up a greeting yourself at the Local Mega Super Store.

(The Catholic League first reported the e-mail)

Happy Holidays
..all of them ;)