FYI, you're hearing it straight from the mouth of someone whose wife works in management for that Bentonville, Ark.,-based company everybody loves to hate, who as a devout Christian would've told me this even if she'd had to grin and bear it at work. There were no instructions from corporate ... zip, zilch, nada, not one word ... that "Merry Christmas" had to be replaced with "Happy Holidays." It did not happen. What did happen was a couple of managers of individual stores in states where you would expect something like this to happen did it of their own volition. Because store managers have the leeway and freedom to do that. Every Wal-Mart store is not run exactly out of the same playbook, they are tailored to the areas they in. You'll find, if you travel to some different ones in different areas, they don't even carry the exact same stock. For instance, there's one located a little piece away from us, in an area where there is a rather large Hispanic population, where you can barely find an English language CD in the music section. That's not how it is in my wife's store.
Sorry to go off on that tangent, I've been looking for an opening to get this off my chest here.
As far as the main topic, I think what is bothering everyone here is this woman taking it upon herself to do this and say this when it wasn't her place to say it and wasn't her business to start with. Again, I say to this woman ... and again, I agree that this woman and the person who started this thread are probably one in the same ... open up your Bible, whatever translation you use (my personal preference is the NAS, Scofield edition), and turn to Proverbs 26:17.