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Posted by: TimALoftis 3 years agoA year after religious and other groups boycotted retailers, including Wal-Mart, for downplaying Christmas, the world's largest retail chain will have an in-your-face Christmas theme this year.
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calguy2123
Nov. 10, 2006, 2:35 a.m.I am not a Christian, still I would prefer Merry Christmas to a lame Happy Holidays. Give us a break you pseudo-secular people. And a big thumbs up to Walmart.
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Donnaich
Nov. 10, 2006, 8:57 a.m.... and I'll be wishing any other store people who say "Merry Christmas" to me "Happy Hanukkah!" And I'm not even Jewish...
The generic one did bite, but "In your face" is becoming too much of an American habit. How about just "Thank you for shopping here"? Because I don't think they give a hang whose holiday it is... just as long as you buy from them.
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maemae14
Nov. 10, 2006, 9:11 a.m.who celebrates christmas in november. my neighbor puts up christmas decorations in october. its insane. i know everyone says its the "season" but its not even thanksgiving and were whipping out the christmas lights...
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jonmaverick
Nov. 10, 2006, 9:36 a.m.Hallelujah, now I can get me a big 'ol plastic Jesus to stick out on the lawn next to the giant plastic Santa and inflatable plastic snowman. This will be the best Christmas ever.
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blackdawn425
Nov. 10, 2006, 9:37 a.m.It said that a person complained becuase there was no Christmas card. Jeez greedy much? You already have the main theme of the entire store and downtown New York what else more do you want? So you don't have one card that everyone else has big deal. Is that person really going to be that unhappy because they didn't get that specific Christmas card?
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not2needy
Nov. 10, 2006, 9:47 a.m.Walmart does whatever they have to do to bring in the megabucks, not getting mine this year, and i am almost done with my Christmas shopping!!
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Bacalao
Nov. 10, 2006, 2:20 p.m.I finished my shopping before i started. I don't celibrate any holiday the wat marketers tell me to. It should be about faith not money
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RASSRASS
Nov. 10, 2006, 10:03 a.m.The question is, what have religious and other groups done to 'up-play' Christmas? Christmas is all about increased consumption, as though the level of consumption during the year is not enough. What do children do at Christmas? They think about how many toys they are going to get. Then on Christmas day, they get angry if they don't get the toys that they requested. Parents came up with a comfortable solution - Santa Claus - if you don't get the toy you want, blame Santa. When I think back to my childhood Christmases, I don't remember toys or food, I remember singing carols by candlelight outside houses in my community, and visiting the sick and the elderly with food and gifts.
TALK LESS, THINK MORE, DO MORE.
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ckluthe38
Nov. 10, 2006, 10:22 a.m.I agree that is what i remember about christmas also is we allways sang carols at the rest homes and to peoples homes that were shut ins. My mom did meals on wheels and I allways went when i could. When I grew up there was a period of time when I was married to my first husband I didnt have a pot to you know in and still every year at christmas or thanksgiving i called the hot line and got some names of people who were shut ins and shared my holiday dinner. I know am a mother of 6 children 5 are adopted and we allways participate in can drives and I want to get a caroling party together in my church so my children can participate in that tradition also.
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blksentra2
Nov. 10, 2006, 10:24 a.m.I'm glad they got over that non-sense and is once again promoting "Christmas" this year.
I do however wonder if they will once again set the grounds for another holiday melee brawl by lowering the price of laptop computers and only stock about 10 of them in each of their stores.
That is how I expect for Wal-Mart to wish us a "Merry Christmas."
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not2needy
Nov. 10, 2006, 10:53 a.m.HEY! You're right about that blksentra2. I had forgotten that old trick to get people into the store.
Bad Walmart!
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ind06
Nov. 10, 2006, 11:35 a.m.Thank God Walmart is at the vanguard, protecting Christmas. I can't imagine the loving spiritual basis of Christmas being in safer hands. I can sleep at night.
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Foxman
Nov. 10, 2006, 11:39 a.m.The midwinter celebration is a long-standing time of getting people together when, in the past, you were often snowed into small areas for long periods of time. Getting the family together to renew their bonds, and have some fun to get over the short-day blues. Carols to brighten the neighborhood (singing for elder folks or the ill) have been sung for millenia. Hannukah came centuries before Christmas, and the Solstice festival even before that. So Christians do not have a monopoly on the season no matter what many of them say (very vocally in some cases).
That said, I'm glad that people can once again wish a Merry Christmas or Happy Hannukah if that is their preference. Everyone going 'vanilla' to avoid possibly offending someone is just going too far. So long as all faiths are acknowledged, allowed their holiday time, and not shoved to the side in importance because they aren't of a more popular religion, then we have the right to our holiday of choice.
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Foxman
Nov. 10, 2006, 11:41 a.m.Added- Oh, but I still won't shop at Wal-of-ChinaMart because of their crappy personnel policies and the fact they funnel billions of $s out of the country for slave-labor made products.
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Jupie
Nov. 10, 2006, 11:44 a.m.they have to do something since they are getting rid of their lay aways :P
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twincats
Nov. 10, 2006, 12:09 p.m.As a pagan, I know I'm in the minority but I don't see anything wrong with not making assumptions about someone else's religion if you don't know them (which is the case much of the time when you work in retail.)
That whole 'war on Christmas' nonsense was so bogus. I guess when you're the majority, you think your holiday trumps everyone else's and just because someone doesn't want to just assume you're a "Merry Christmas" person, you have to get huffy and offended because they wish you "Happy Holidays" instead. Oh, the horror, it's the end of Christmas as we know it! LOL.
Happy Holidays (Yule, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa, Hanukkhah, etc. And, oh yeah, Merry Christmas!)
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K10House
Nov. 10, 2006, 12:36 p.m.The irony of this could knock me over. First of all, most Christmas pagentry - as in all of the decorations and goodies WalMart sells - was lifted from the Pagans. Second, does anyone really think Jesus wants you to buy even more stuff you and your loved ones probably don't need, made by people (often very young people) who are not paid a living wage, and sold by a company that doesn't care about the communities it mines for profits? How about driving right by WalMart and heading down to the local homeless shelter or food bank or church to help out? Or - GASP! - how about supporting a smaller local business? I think Jesus would like that!!!
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twincats
Nov. 10, 2006, 6:38 p.m.Hear hear!
99% of all those decorations come from China. I should know, I spent 4 Holiday seasons unloading them from trucks, unpacking them and stocking them. We used to joke about getting exotic strains of flu from the "Chinese dust" on the boxes, which were VERY dusty and marked in Chinese.
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TheProfessor
Nov. 10, 2006, 2:32 p.m."Absolutely the best and cheapest place to buy groceries". -I second that!
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rlgnmksustpd
Nov. 10, 2006, 1:59 p.m.This news must create a dilemna for religious extremists. On one hand they want to make sure everyone had to acknowledge that the christmas is their celebration of the birth of christ. But then, on the other hand, they've spent years decrying the commercialization of the holiday. So do you applaud Walmart for reinserting the religious basis for the holiday, or view it as a ploy to prop up their sagging popularity and consequent bottom line. Could it be that Walmart is feeling some economic pressure?
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Bacalao
Nov. 10, 2006, 2:29 p.m.I have never given so many comment a good rating as i have here.
Happy holidays /and may your god(s)bless you with a bountiful life.
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