Lowe's listens

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:50 am

Lowe's listens: 'Christmas trees' Chain dumps 'holiday' reference
after WND report, complaints

One day after a WorldNetDaily story brought national exposure, the home-improvement retailer Lowe's dropped references to "Holiday Trees" in favor of "Christmas Trees" only.

As WND reported, a Lowe's store in Austin, Texas, featured a banner that referred in English to "Holiday Trees" but in Spanish said "Christmas Trees."

Banner at Lowe's store in Austin, Texas advertised "Holiday" trees in English, but "Christmas" trees in Spanish

The American Family Association says its supporters contacted Lowe's to express their displeasure.

The company responded in a statement: "To ensure consistency of our message and to avoid confusion among our customers, we are now referring to the trees only as 'Christmas Trees.' We have also removed a banner that read 'Holiday Trees' from the front of our stores."

Lowe's, in fact, issued a press release Nov. 8 touting its selection of "Christmas trees," but in its stores, it took a different tack.

AFA President Tim Wildmon said companies that choose to abandon the national observance of Christmas are finding Americans are not afraid to speak out with their pocketbooks.

"It's good to know Lowe's is a company that listens to their customers, a rarity in today's politically correct retail marketplace," he said.

Wildmon added, "Since they can't take Christ out of Christmas, many national retailers are trying to simply do away with Christmas."

The list, he said, includes Kmart, Sears, Home Depot, Target, Wal-Mart, Kroger, Office Max, Walgreens, Staples, J.C. Penney, Dell and Best Buy.

After a series of reports by WND, however, Wal-Mart officials satisfied demands by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which had called for a national boycott after accusing the retail giant of discriminating against Christmas while promoting other seasonal holidays by name, such as Kwanzaa and Hanukkah.

More than 425,000 people have signed AFA's petition to stop bans on the use of "Christmas." The petition is being sent to retailers, although Wildmon acknowledged it may not have an impact until next Christmas season.

"Last year we called for a boycott of Federated Stores because they banned 'Merry Christmas,' and this year they are using 'Merry Christmas,'" Wildmon pointed out.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:54 am

fucking christians

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:01 pm

This is solely a marketing issue.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:23 pm

What the fuck is a holiday tree? Im an athiest and still the full blown getting rid of the term christmas annoys me.

Post by **Lyion** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:02 pm

<insert joke about Heathen Pagan Godless Liberal Canadians to bait Zan and Tik here>

Really, who cares? A company can do whatever they want. Given 75% of the U.S. is Christian, and most Atheists and Agnostics don't seem to be offended by Christmas this shouldn't even be news.

Generally, good marketing is good for companies. This is certainly good marketing.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:07 pm

ROAR MOTHER FUCKER

labbats · Post by **labbats** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:20 pm

I am offended by trees.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:07 pm

I am offended that these morons live on the same landmass as me.

Lionking · Post by **Lionking** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:25 pm

I am offended by Ruth Bader-Ginsbitch

FUCK THE ACLU UP THE ASS!

-Out

:vonk:

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:42 pm

Where can I get a good price on jewish trees?

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:05 pm

or Kwanzaa trees for that matter? do the blacks even use trees for their holiday?

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:25 pm

Not unless they are stolen... then the blacks love them... most trade em for crack rock after they steal from rich white suberbia.

liquidstayce · Post by **liquidstayce** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:30 pm

They are not Jewish trees... they are Hannukah Bush.. lol Really no such thing of course. However, there's a real plant called Wandering Jew. For the sake of fairness, a Unitarian friend of mine, part Jewish by heritage, calls it Creeping Christian instead.

liquidstayce · Post by **liquidstayce** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:36 pm

oh and ..........

Small child asked his father, "Daddy, can we have a Hanukkah Bush".

"No, of course not." said the father.

"Why not?", asked the child.

The father answered, "Because the last time we had dealings with a lighted bush we spent 40 years in the wilderness".

(reference to the burning bush of course)

Jimmy Durante · Post by **Jimmy Durante** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:01 pm

I've been watching the "War on Christmas" coverage on some of the news networks, and it brought to mind an interesting RL observation: Several years ago, I was in Mumbai (previously Bombay), India around the holiday season and I saw nothing but Merry Christmas slogans plastered all over the place along with Santa Claus clones handing out presents to kids, and the usual holiday fanfare we normally see here in the U.S. Adults and children alike generally enjoyed themselves. It's pretty sobering that a nation that is predominantly Hindu and Muslim has no qualms with catering to it's roughly 2% Christian populace, while it's even at issue at home.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:39 pm

Because our country has gone soft and are a bunch of pussies...?

Goose_Man · Post by **Goose_Man** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:08 am

Didn’t you know? America is the land of the free and freedom of religion.. that is unless you're a Christian.

If you are a Christian you are looked down on, made fun of, and not allowed to express your views.

Post by **Tossica** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:15 am

Christmas has nothing to do with Christianity. It's a marketing juggernaut. Christmas = big bucks.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:56 am

Goose_Man wrote:Didn’t you know? America is the land of the free and freedom of religion.. that is unless you're a Christian.

If you are a Christian you are looked down on, made fun of, and not allowed to express your views.

What a bunch of whinny ass bullshit.

Name me the last none-Christian born president?

This horribly oppressed religion must have absolutely NO religious representation in the Senate, right?

Dear lord, imagine a fundamentalist Christian president openly advocating legislating his religion?

Boy, aren't those Christians looked down upon.

Fucking pussy.

Goose_Man · Post by **Goose_Man** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:59 am

Zanchief Returns wrote:
Goose_Man wrote:Didn’t you know? America is the land of the free and freedom of religion.. that is unless you're a Christian.

If you are a Christian you are looked down on, made fun of, and not allowed to express your views.

What a bunch of whinny ass bullshit.

Name me the last none-Christian born president?

This horribly oppressed religion must have absolutely NO religious representation in the Senate, right?

Dear lord, imagine a fundamentalist Christian president openly advocating legislating his religion?

Boy, aren't those Christians looked down upon.

Fucking pussy.

My point exactly

A non Christian talking shit to me just because...

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:01 am

I am Christian, and I'm talking shit because you're full of just that.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:02 am

He's talking shit to you cause you said something retarded

Goose_Man · Post by **Goose_Man** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:11 am

Ok I may have went a bit off the deep end there but I do think that if in today’s society if you are Christian you better keep it to your self.

Its all over the news, in fact on the front page of USA today a couple days ago they were up in arms about the fact that the new Narnia movie might have some Christian undertones and it was a bad thing… OH NO CALL THE POLICE.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:24 am

And I've read dozens of articles talking about how it's a good thing that hte movie has christian undertones.

Imagine a movie that had strong muslim undertones? Yea, no one would talk about that. Just ask your best friend how he would feel about that one.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:47 am

liquidstayce wrote:They are not Jewish trees... they are Hannukah Bush.. lol Really no such thing of course. However, there's a real plant called Wandering Jew. For the sake of fairness, a Unitarian friend of mine, part Jewish by heritage, calls it Creeping Christian instead.

hah! creeping christian... might as well called is the mindia shrub.