You idiot hicks in fly-over country, waving your Bibles around and yakking away at tractor pulls SHOULD JUST SHUT-UP..!!!
Posted on 11/08/2015 4:44:17 PM PST by Sam's Army
SouthPark mall made a mistake when it chose to replace its traditional Christmas tree with a faux glacier, the company’s president said Sunday, and the controversial display will be removed sometime Monday.
“It was a mistake, and we had to correct,†Simon Mall President David Contis said Sunday. “If we lose money, so be it.†Indianapolis-based Simon Malls owns SouthPark as well as Charlotte Premium Outlets and Concord Mills.
SouthPark Mall shoppers did not take kindly to the mall replacing its traditional Christmas tree with the controversial glacier as part of its Santa display, so the shopping center announced this weekend that the tree is coming back.
The decision to add the glacier wasn’t intended to be secular at all, Contis told the Observer on Sunday. The glacier, which featured interactive elements like a sound and light show, cost tens of thousands of dollars and many months to build, he added.
The glacier, he said Sunday, should be gone within the next 24 hours.
Customer feedback on the new holiday feature was mostly negative on social media. Many accused the shopping center of trying too hard to be politically correct. Others lamented the aesthetics of the giant white mound.
A Change.org petition created soon after news of the glacier came out Friday had garnered nearly 24,000 signatures as of Sunday afternoon.
SouthPark is one of five malls in which Simon had planned to add the glacier. Contis said feedback at other malls has been mixed. Customers at a Long Island mall that added the glacier had a similar reaction to it as SouthPark shoppers, according to local reports.
On Saturday, just a day after SouthPark’s announcement of the new Santa display, the mall said it would incorporate “key elements to the Santa set,†including the traditional Christmas tree. At the time, the mall said it would keep the glacier, but now says it’s getting rid of it entirely.
The mall will be putting up its traditional decor, including the Christmas tree, that will feature a few new elements like updated lighting, Contis said.
Simon has been upgrading Santa sets throughout malls in the United States, Contis said. The glacier concept was inspired by the North Pole, the well-known home of Santa Claus.
“Not every one of our ideas works but the majority do. This is an idea that could be changed easily,†said Contis, who was on the capital committee that made the decision.
SouthPark is an important Simon mall, Contis added. It has long been a “good corporate citizen†that employs thousands and brings in millions in sales tax revenue. The mall is also in the midst of a major renovation that includes upgrades to its furniture, Wi-Fi and columns inside and its landscaping outside.
You idiot hicks in fly-over country, waving your Bibles around and yakking away at tractor pulls SHOULD JUST SHUT-UP..!!!
Maybe the purpose of having a holiday glacier is to provide a place for all of the polar bears to gather, in order to facilitate the knock-out game. Any multi-cultural diversity in the Simon property group to explain this?
They can have my tractor pulls when they pry my sooty black fingers off the bleacher railings
The Hallmark card & gift stores had Christmas ornaments around the end of August.
A number of malls in the US are struggling.
Nothing like pi$$ing-off customers at the most important time of year financially.
True a Christmas Tree is not essential to “Christmas”, Christ Mass, Mass on the Day we celebrate the Birth of Jesus, it is a bit more than Just Secular.
St. Boniface and the Christmas Tree
http://www.catholic.com/blog/steve-weidenkopf/st-boniface-and-the-christmas-tree
God Bless
Not only PO'd your customers, ripped off by your "Glacier" source contractors!
She looks like she HATES ISRAEL, too.
I see a future South Park episode has just written itself.
I’m old fashioned. I like grabbing my gifts at the bottom of the Christmas tree...not the friggin “glacier’ or whatever crap they call it.
The Hallmark card & gift stores had Christmas ornaments around the end of August.”
And cards to congratulate same-sex couples on their marriage all year around. Just another place we don’t shop anymore.
Betcha 10 to 1 that he gives out gluten-free candy canes, too.
This behemoth would "fail" even in 1967.
“The glacier concept was inspired by the North Pole, the well-known home of Santa Claus.”
There are glaciers at the North Pole? Anyone want to clue me in where it is located and what is the name of this glacier?
Looks a bit like a giant athletic cup.
If those in charge at the mall need help they can google: mall santa set
Click on Images. No glaciers to be seen.
Wouldn't it be nice if the country could be divided into a liberal half and a traditional half?
Liberals could celebrate 'Ferguson Lives Matter Holidays' and riot or burn things down. White liberal elites could put glaciers up in malls to remind liberal children global warming will kill them and destroy their chances for happiness. Liberals so love children... when they're frightened, broken, and sad...
Our side can have Christmas trees in pleasant malls. Not Christmas trees put up by liberal elites who think they're so superior to everyone - - but Christmas trees put up by people who share our beliefs... and our ideas of tradition...
Wouldn't that be wonderful?
That’s just ugly. It looks like the Jetsons meet Santa.
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