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Best Buy Bans Use of Merry Christmas In Advertising
Forbes.com ^ | 11/11/06 | By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristian; bestbuy; christianbashing; christmasforever; merrychristmas; nonissue; pccrap; religion
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To: dcnd9

Done!


21 posted on 11/11/2006 1:47:39 PM PST by SweetCaroline (***Your own healing is the Greatest Message of Hope to others!***)
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To: dcnd9
Let's see now…Best Buy's selling products manufactured by the PLA, they are increasing our trade deficit with the PRC, helping the PLA modernize their Navy and militarize space, and whose High Def products are forcing our utilities to build more coal fired power plants…and you're getting all upset over their pandering to non-Christians?
22 posted on 11/11/2006 1:48:09 PM PST by dgallo51 (DEMAND IMMEDIATE, OPEN INVESTIGATIONS OF U.S. COMPLICITY IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE!)
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To: lowbridge

Do you have an alternative to BB that you can recommend?


23 posted on 11/11/2006 1:48:10 PM PST by eleni121 (sometimes you have to cut off the limb to save the body)
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To: dcnd9; All

Well guess what?
I am Jewish. And I am still pissed off
by that blatant anti religious, anti Christian
and I am sure, anti Jewish attitude and policy.

So the bunch of new Audio/HDTV and washer/dryer I
WAS going to purchase at Best Buy will just have to be purchased somewhere with a better attitude.

Oh,yes.

Merry Christmas and a Happy Chanukah Best Buy!!!


24 posted on 11/11/2006 1:48:34 PM PST by Gideon Reader ("Life is harsh. Failure to take threats seriously is both stupid and dangerous".)
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To: holymoly

Where do you go? Circuit City?


25 posted on 11/11/2006 1:49:13 PM PST by eleni121 (sometimes you have to cut off the limb to save the body)
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To: Right-Wing Champion
Christians are the majority. We can and should intimidate them.

Oh, the irony...

26 posted on 11/11/2006 1:49:21 PM PST by Leroy S. Mort
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To: lowbridge
My other response to this thread:

Political considerations aside, and political correctness, Best Buy has always been among the best consumer companies about...right up to the point of sale...then it's caveat emptor writ large...BUYER BEWARE...after you leave these premises...YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!!!...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.

We have had more than one clash with Best Buy. I won't recount them in your detail. We simply won't buy anything at that (God)awful company for the rest of my life.

27 posted on 11/11/2006 1:49:23 PM PST by stevem
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To: dcnd9
Just sent this off to Mizzzz Bryannt

Interesting,..... What day in December is an "Official Federally Recognized Holiday" that everyone gets off work for even if happens on a normal work week day? Hint, it occurs every December 25th. Figured out the correct name for the holiday yet? It's Christmas and not anything else. Now, get with the program and knock off the PCism. The holiday is Christmas and the correct phrase is Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays or anything else.

We'll see if anything comes back that in the words of Gen. Honnere isn't "Stuck On Stupid!"

28 posted on 11/11/2006 1:49:25 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: dcnd9

The Announcements sidebar is reserved for Notifications of Activism events and FR business.

Not this.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611173/posts

AM


29 posted on 11/11/2006 1:50:01 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: eleni121

Value City


30 posted on 11/11/2006 1:51:05 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: dcnd9

I will never set foot in Best Buy again. No joke.
Anybody know Circuit City's policy?


31 posted on 11/11/2006 1:51:33 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: dcnd9

Done.


32 posted on 11/11/2006 1:51:53 PM PST by Earthdweller
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To: dcnd9
WalMart is using "Christmas" though, I heard.

Too bad I bought my Over the Hedge video at Best Buy...Would rather give money to someone else.


33 posted on 11/11/2006 1:52:17 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: stevem

The Best Buy in my city never has what I want and you can never find anyone that knows anything. If you are lucky enough to find a clerk and ask a question, all you get is a blank stare. I give Circuit City all my business. By the way, Dawn's statement is laughable. What BS.


34 posted on 11/11/2006 1:52:52 PM PST by SMM48
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To: mware

OK...I'll check it out. And thanks!


35 posted on 11/11/2006 1:53:58 PM PST by eleni121 (sometimes you have to cut off the limb to save the body)
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To: dcnd9

Whether Worst Buy uses Merry Christmas or not won't affect me -- I stopped shopping there months ago. Worst Buy does not take well to cash paying customers such as myself -- we get to wait in the "cash only" line an extra 20 minutes before being checked out. Worst Buy mistreats its customers in sooooo many ways....


36 posted on 11/11/2006 1:54:01 PM PST by EverOnward
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To: dcnd9
"Have an Appropriately Emotional Non-sectarian Holiday Festive Vegetation Experience!"
37 posted on 11/11/2006 1:54:04 PM PST by pabianice
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To: dcnd9

They are a couple years slow in dissing Christmas. The ones that have dissed it in the past, now are back to Christmas!


38 posted on 11/11/2006 1:54:37 PM PST by dforest (be careful you don't become what you hate the most)
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To: dcnd9

>>we certainly need to be respectful of all of them

So SAY all of them! Say Merry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving,
Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc.! Be inclusive not exclusive--this means please ALL your shoppers by saying the name of Christmas, AND the others. And even those who aren't religious have to admit:

The holiday on Dec 25 is CHRISTMAS
We are giving CHRISTMAS gifts
I have the day off from work because of CHRISTMAS
I won't be shopping for my CHRISTMAS gifts at Best Buy


39 posted on 11/11/2006 1:54:37 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: dcnd9

Kohls has run a happy holidays commercial in the Milwaukee area market yet they run a banner on their web site showing how many days to December 25th.

http://www.kohls.com/main/editorial.jsp;jsessionid=0001DOE0NGQQBIHQIY4I0YTBEYI:u1v28la5?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=10834639&FOLDER%3C%3EbrowsePath=10834639&bmUID=1163282060395


40 posted on 11/11/2006 1:55:11 PM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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