What companies will YOU support?

Written by chuck on December 16, 2008 – 9:48 am -


Which companies will you support?

I must have office supplies, so I sure hope Wal-Mart has what I need.

Companies against “Christmas”

Barnes & Noble 1-800-843-2665 – Offers “Holiday Gift Guide.” Christmas not found on website. Online feedback form (bottom of page)

Braum’s Ice Cream 1-877-274-4197 Sells “holiday” items only. Online feedback form

CVS Pharmacy 1-800-746-7287 – CVS offers a “Holiday Center” on its website. The Nov. paper insert avoids using the term “Christmas.” Phone: 1-888-607-4287 or email customercare@cvs.com

Gap Stores (Gap, Old Navy) 1-800-427-7895 – Gap stores avoid using Christmas at every opportunity, being a very secular company. custserv@gap.com

Kroger 1-866-221-4141 -Website uses “holiday” extensively. Weekly ad uses “holiday.” email Kroger

Office Depot 1-800-463-3768 – Newspaper inserts reference “holiday” only. Website void of Christmas references. Online form

Olive Garden 1-800-331-2729 –

Radio Shack 1-800-843-7422 – Website search for “Christmas” results in “holiday” page. No mention of Christmas anywhere. Online feedback form

Staples 508-253-0879 – Staples’ press release referred to “holiday” 13 times without a single mention of Christmas. Last year, Staples emailed a customer to say it refused to post “Christmas” signs in their store. Live chat with Staples online or email Staples.

SUPERVALU 952-828-4000 -Owns Albertsons and Jewel-Osco. Refers to Christmas decorations as “holiday” on website and weekly ads. email SUPERVALUE

Companies FOR “Christmas”

Bass Pro Shops

Bed Bath & Beyond

Belk

Best Buy

Big Lots

Costco

Dollar Tree

Family Dollar

Dollar General

Electronic Repair Co. Birmingham AL

Home Depot ….(Thanks Home Depot, I don’t know how I could live with you!)

Kmart

Kohl’s

Lowe’s …. (Thanks Lowe’s, I don’t know how I could live with you!)

Macy’s

Menard’s

Petsmart

Rite Aid

Sears

Super D Drug Stores

Target ……………..(Interesting how Target changed their idea of Christmas since 2005! Thanks Target!)

Walgreens

Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club –



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4 Responses to “What companies will YOU support?”

  1. By halbert on Dec 17, 2008 8:25 am | Reply

    Good to see more companies no longer trying to impose one religion on everyone.

  2. By zoomie72 on Dec 17, 2008 9:07 am | Reply

    Seems as if we tend to become more and more offended over less and less as time goes by. Don’t even get the ill-informed American public started on Xmas versus Christmas [even though Xmas WAS a proper church-sanctioned form of Christmas around the time of the Reformation, X being recognized among clerics as the first letter - and an appropriate abbreviation - of Christ]. Christmas is a time for joy and love, for thanksgiving and tolerance, and for the free giving of gifts to all- yet now it becomes something divisive and adversarial, all in the name of “protecting the sanctity of Christmas”, I am sure. If one wanted to celebrate the sanctity, and the true spirit of Christmas, why don’t we all join in joyous communion, believing in the unifying Grace of a God that knows more than we, that can do more than we, that understands more than we, and most importantly that ACCEPTS more than we. Peace on earth, good will to ALL, as the angels admonished when they announced the coming of the Christchild.

    Which companies will I support? Being a true American, and a capitalist– the ones with the best sales.

  3. By chuck on Dec 17, 2008 5:59 pm | Reply

    I will support companies who wish me a Merry Christmas first, then if I can’t find what I need, I will go where ever I have to.

    zoomie72… you are correct about xmas.

    Claim: ‘Xmas’ is a modern, disrespectful abbreviation of the word ‘Christmas.’
    Status: False.
    Origins: The abbreviation of ‘Xmas’ for ‘Christmas’ is neither modern nor disrespectful. The notion that it is a new and vulgar representation of the word ‘Christmas’ seems to stem from the erroneous belief that the letter ‘X’ is used to stand for the word ‘Christ’ because of its resemblance to a cross, or that the abbreviation was deliberately concocted “to take the ‘Christ’ out of Christmas.” Actually, this usage is nearly as old as Christianity itself, and its origins lie in the fact that the first letter in the Greek word for ‘Christ’ is ‘chi,’ and the Greek letter ‘chi’ is represented by a symbol similar to the letter ‘X’ in the modern Roman alphabet. Hence ‘Xmas’ is indeed perfectly legitimate abbreviation for the word ‘Christmas’ (just as ‘Xian’ is also sometimes used as an abbreviation of the word ‘Christian’).

    None of this means that Christians (and others) aren’t justified in feeling slighted when people write ‘Xmas’ rather than ‘Christmas,’ but the point is that the abbreviation was not created specifically for the purpose of demeaning Christ, Christians, Christianity, or Christmas — it’s a very old artifact of a very different language.

  4. By zoomie72 on Dec 18, 2008 11:32 am | Reply

    And I didn’t mean to minimize the feelings when one who fervently believes in Christ sees Christmas, arguably the second most important Holy Day of the Year, overlooked or trivialized; however, it IS a holiday season [Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanza'a -now there's a made-up holiday for you - and New Year's], so “holiday wishes” are certainly appropriate from any store, and Christmas wishes from Christmas-celebrating stores are very welcome

    the question that I [and any other discerning and honest person] cannot answer definitively is whether these “Christmas wishes” are any more or less pandering to the “believer” crowd than the “HOLIDAY wishes” are to the non-believer crowd, and so, as Emerson said… “The older I get, the less I listen to what men say, and the more I watch what they do”; Peace on earth, and good will to all– Merry Christmas, and God bless us, every one.

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