November 10. 2006
In today's Grapevine:
Having projected dissappointingly flat sales for the month of November, WalMart is pulling out all the stops on its Christmas marketing drive, blaring Christmas music 24/7, decorating its stores as gaudily as possible, and mounting Christmas count-down clocks on the walls to drive home the message to consumers that Christmas is on the way, sooner than you think, so you'd better buy, Buy, BUY, spend, Spend, SPEND, lest you get caught unprepared, with no present on hand for your own, disappointed, emotionally crippled, Tiny Tim on December 25th.
Brit Hume, of course, interprets this marketing decision as a triumph for good, traditional Christian values in the never-ending, ACLU-led War On Christmas:
Having projected dissappointingly flat sales for the month of November, WalMart is pulling out all the stops on its Christmas marketing drive, blaring Christmas music 24/7, decorating its stores as gaudily as possible, and mounting Christmas count-down clocks on the walls to drive home the message to consumers that Christmas is on the way, sooner than you think, so you'd better buy, Buy, BUY, spend, Spend, SPEND, lest you get caught unprepared, with no present on hand for your own, disappointed, emotionally crippled, Tiny Tim on December 25th.
Brit Hume, of course, interprets this marketing decision as a triumph for good, traditional Christian values in the never-ending, ACLU-led War On Christmas:
Oh yeah, and Muslim's want to cut your daughter's head off too, by the way."Holidays" Out, "Christmas" In
The folks at Wal-Mart are putting Christmas back into the holidays in a big way. Wal-Mart announced today that it will use "Merry Christmas" — "early and often" this season. Last year Wal-Mart and other retailers were boycotted by some groups because they downplayed Christmas in favor of a generic and politically correct "holiday" theme.
But a Wal-Mart spokeswoman says the company learned its lesson — and will have what's described as an "in-your-face" Christmas theme this year — featuring Christmas music over the loudspeakers and signs that count down the days until Christmas.
posted by Patriot's Quill at 10:15 AM
1 Comments:
Walmart has crossed the bounds from a business entity into a political organization. I know the line has never been too clear, but while many businesses donate money to political candidates and have lobbyists to get them government favors and pork barrle, they usually stop short of going on the political offensive themselves. Just the other day Walmart issued a statement aimed at John Edwards, attempting to make him appear as a hypocrite because after he has criticized Walmart so much, one of his volunteer staff members tried to buy a Playstation 3 at a Walmart. Walmart did not note that this was done without Edwards' knowledge- like Edwards can control where all of his volunteer staff members shop and what they do on their private time. The fact Walmart took the step to issue this biased ant-Edwards statement shows they plan on actively (not just passively via contributions) campaigning against Democratic politicians in the coming years.
I know boycotts have been in place on the left against Walmart for a long time and they are very ineffective because Walmart's low prices appeal to people in the income group that feel they have no other choice than to put low price before other issues. But with each additional member, they become more effective, even if only very slightly.
I will not be shopping at Walmart anymore, and not just because of the Edwards issue. The fact they succumbed to Fox News and other conservative's "War on Christmas" schtick means that I cannot even walk into a Walmart in mid-November without being drowned in Christian music. I am a Christian, and have been all my life, and nothing pisses me off more than corporations who are so greedy they can't even wait until December to exploit Jesus Christ for capital gain. Jesus says forgive and forget. I will forgive, but I will not forget what Walmart has done and I will not be shopping there anymore. In addition, while this will be tough since so many companies have their products in Walmart, I am going to attempt to refrain from buying products from manufacturers that sell in Walmart.
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