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That's good! Hopefully Best Buy won't be as packed if the Evangelicals flee to Wal-Mart. If this is all it takes to get rid of the good ole boys, i wish more stores pandered to Muslims. Maybe now the parking lot at Best Buy won't have raised trucks double parked.
I'm not a "good ole boy", I don't drive a truck, and I'm not an Evangelical.
Best Buy creates Internet buzz with Black Friday ad marking Muslim holiday | detnews.com | The Detroit News (http://www.detnews.com/article/20091124/BIZ/911240428/1001 - broken link)
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"We respect that diversity and choose to greet our customers and employees in ways that reflect their traditions," said spokeswoman Lisa Svac Hawks in a written statement to The Detroit News. "In addition to Happy Eid, you will see greetings of MerryChristmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa and Feliz Navidad in various Best Buy communications during the holiday season."
It appears to be a new marketing strategy. Christmas comes later because of timing.
This should please everyone except those who want nothing BUT "Merry Christmas" printed or spoken during the holiday season. And those people don't count.
No, using "happy holidays" then making an exception for the muslim holiday is what pisses people off. If you're going to use happy holidays, use it across the damn board. Pandering to muslims is exceptional bull****.
But you seem to be A-OK with them pandering to Christians. Interesting!
From the blog that the OP linked:
"They have since started using the word Christmas in some ads – but it’s very limited. "
I would bet dollars-to-dougnuts they end up printing the word Christmas more time than they do Eid al-Adha.
Much ado about nothing. Just another story spun to try and convince people that this silly "War on Christmas" is real. Why does the Right always come up with these "War on <insert current outrage>"? Rhetorical question, no need to answer.
Best Buy creates Internet buzz with Black Friday ad marking Muslim holiday | detnews.com | The Detroit News (http://www.detnews.com/article/20091124/BIZ/911240428/1001 - broken link)
It appears to be a new marketing strategy. Christmas comes later.
This should please everyone except those who want nothing BUT "Merry Christmas" printed or spoken during the holiday season. And those people don't count.
But... but... Black Friday is clearly a Christian holiday!
Apparently, based on the links, this thread is based on a lie.
Shocked, I tell you.
Absolutely shocked that xians would lie about something like this.
Okay, I'm not that surprised.
The problem is that many people rely on internet blogs for their news and don't look for other sources to confirm anything. And finding other blogs or news articles that only repeat or refer to the original blog doesn't count.
BOYCOTT ‘BEST BUY’ – They wish MUSLIMS “Happy EID” but won’t wish Christians “Merry Christmas” « Bare Naked Islam's Weblog
So as of 2006, their official policy has been to use Happy Holidays to be all inclusive and not use Merry Christmas. Guess that policy went out the window this year in their pandering to Muslims. Christmas is bad, except for all the sales money it brings retailers. But Muslim holidays are good. OK, this Christian is taking his money elsewhere this year cause Best Buy is off my list of stores to shop this holiday season. Instead of a jolly Santa, maybe they'll have someone dressed as a muslim suicide bomber to get people into the holiday spirit.
I didn't know Christmas was on the week of Nov 27 this year.
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