Posted on 11/11/2006 1:33:45 PM PST by dcnd9
Best Buy has announced they will be using "Happy Holidays" this coming Christmas shopping season, and they will not be using "Merry Christmas."
Dawn Bryant, a spokeswoman at Best Buy Co. Inc., says their advertising will not be using the term "Merry Christmas." "We are going to continue to use the term holiday because there are several holidays throughout that time period, and we certainly need to be respectful of all of them," Bryant said. Send email to dawn.bryant@bestbuy.com
Reference article:
http://www.forbes.com/business/services/feeds/ap/2006/11/09/ap3161404.html
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Send email to
dawn.bryant@bestbuy.com
And US Navy guy bans "Best" Buy!
Now Best Buy doesn't have to worry about me "buying" anything from them this CHRISTMAS season.
I'd boycott but then I don't shop there anyway. XD
Wow, im very surprised at this. Even in Lebanon where muslims are a majority pretty much all retail stores advertise with merry christmas. I can't believe that some places in the USA are banning saying merry christmas...
I call BS on that. Last year they had a sign up, "Only 9 shopping days left until Dec 25"
Which of the several holidays was this being respectful of ?
This crap puts me in a blue funk.
Best Buy sucks anyways.
The last time I bought a 5 disc DVD player from them?:
After my last 5 disc DVD player quit on me (after owning it only a couple of months), today I took it back to the store to have it fixed, get my money back, or get it exchanged for another DVD player. I settled on exchanging it for a brand new DVD player of my choice. Though I don't know much about DVD players, I KNEW I didn't want the same one I had last time (seeing how it conked out on me after only a couple months) , so I settled on this "Samsung DVD-C631P Progressive Scan 5-Disc DVD Player".
THIS was a WORSE mistake than my last DVD player. I brought it straight home from the store, attached it to the TV, turned it on, got the samsung logo up, put a dvd movie in it and....nothing. Instead, on my tv screen, the dvd player displays the following text: "This disc cannot be played. Please check the disc". Of course, no matter what disc out of my entire DVD library I put in, I STILL got the same message. (YES, I checked the region codes of the DVD's to make sure they matched with the player)
I tried putting only one disc in the carousel and got nothing but the "disc cannot be played" message. I put in three dvd's, I got the same message, I pressed "disc skip" a couple times on the remote, hallelujah...it finally played a movie!
My joy was short lived. For, after that movie was over, I pressed the disc skip button on the remote again in order to see the next movie. Again I got the "disc cannot be played...etc" message. Thinking that maybe the DVD player was trying to "read" an empty spot in the carousel, I filled up the carousel with 5 discs in the hopes that at least one would play, but no go. This time around, it wouldnt play ANY of the discs on the carousel, including the one it had previously played for me! ("This disc cannot be played. Please check the disc", "This disc cannot be played. Please check the disc", "This disc cannot be played. Please check the disc", ad infinitum)
I had absolutely NO trouble with these dvd discs on my last player just a day or two ago (no trouble with one of them, much less all 5 of them), so I KNOW that the discs werent the problem. The problem was this worthless piece of junk Samsung has the nerve to call a DVD "player". It would be more accurate for them to call this thing a doorstop, because thats all its good for.
This worthless piece of junk is going to be taken back to the store first thing tomorrow, and I'm going to exchange it for yet another DVD player. I do not know which brand I shall choose this time, but it WON'T be a Samsung.
July 5 update: I brought it to the store in the hopes of exchanging it for another player of another brand, but the store (Best Buy) wouldnt allow me that option. They insisted it had to be taken to be repaired (I have a two year service plan), so I reluctantly agreed. The average time they tell me to get the player back is about 4-6 weeks(!!!). So, when I get it back, I'm stuck with this player. HOPEFULLY it will work by then. If not, it's just gonna cost them more to send out my player to be repaired again.
But your bread and butter is from the Christmas shoppers nimrod.
I almost, almost feel sorry for Dawn's email inbox :)
And so it begins. The annual "We're banning Santa Claus/Christmas Trees/the phrase Merry Christmas/Manger Scenes, etc. so we wont offend anybody" politically correct claptrap.
It makes sense that a corporation with such a philosophy would not want to associate itself with Christmas.
Luckily, we have Circuit City in my neighborhood, as well.
And so it begins. The annual "They didn't say 'Christmas' so I'm gonna whine myself hoarse" claptrap.
I just added my 2 cents worth there, what a stupid thing to do.
Great! One less store to give my money to this Christmas season.
And boycotting is NOT enough- write them a letter. Many letters. Christians are the majority. We can and should intimidate them.
F'em if they can't call Christmas Christmas. I'll go to Office Depo.
Plus they have a***hole Steve Young as their spokesperson.
All the more reason to "just go elsewhere"
Done.
Absolutely true. And I'll bet Ramadan shoppers comprise much of your buying public around this time of year.
I wish I had known this before I just spent $250 on a new wide-screen flat panel at Best Buy. I guess I could return it ...
It's always the same:
Thirty people queued in the check-out line.
A single employee working check-out, while a dozen others wander around, picking their noses.
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