Focus puts retailers on a naughty and nice list..

[Nonno]

Top Stories: Focus puts retailers on a naughty and nice list for Christmas | christmas, focus, retailers : Gazette.com

"Focus on the Family wants shoppers to know which retailers are naughty and which ones are nice - at least when it comes to holiday lingo.

On Thursday the Colorado Springs-based ministry's political action arm launched its second-annual holiday campaign by posting an online shoppers guide with three categories: "Christmas-friendly" retailers, "Christmas-negligent" retailers and "Christmas-offensive" retailers.

The "friendly" retailers are so designated because they prominently use "Merry Christmas" and other Christmas-specific references in their catalogs and in-store promotions. Those on the Christmas-offensive list use secular phrases such as "happy holidays" and have "apparently abandoned" the use of the word "Christmas," Focus said. Christmas-negligent companies "marginalize" their message by using "Christmas" in some cases and "holidays" in others.

The ministry - which made its determinations based mostly on an examination of retailers' print and online holiday catalogs - encourages shoppers to patronize the Christmas-friendly stores, but does not tell them to avoid the other retailers.

"It is not a boycott," said Sonja Swiatkiewicz, Focus' director of issues response. "Consumers can do what they wish with the information."

Even so, the online guide includes an electronic petition shoppers can sign that tells retailers "I plan to consult Focus on the Family Action's Shopping Guide ... while making my Christmas purchases this year."

Focus Petitions

 

[bcp]

whats wrong with this?
are you saying its wrong to have a list of establishments that may or may not fit your personal standards?

I dont see a problem with this.

 

[ItalianScallion]

Come on bcp, you should know by now how the lefties think. Whatever they do is ok but anything we do is wrong, racist, bigoted, etc. If I don't vote for the Obamination, I'm racist but if a black person doesn't vote for McCain thats cool.

Back to the topic; I've been shopping that way for many years. No Christmas sign, no money from me. The holiday is Christmas, not happy holidays or seasons greetings.
You never hear the stores or the media discounting Hanukkah. I've even seen the TV stations show a Minorah (sp?) AND verbally wish the viewers Happy Haunakkah, but for Christmas, it's "happy holidays or seasons greetings". I didn't hear "Nonnothing" say anything about that.
And the same goes for Kwanzaa. The networks clearly say "Happy Kwanzaa".
No matter. One day they won't ever have to have anything to do with Christ, Christmas or God....but then, they'll be wishing they had.

 

[Gwydion]

I only shop at stores that have "Happy Kwanzaa" signs.

:shrug:

 

[puggymom]

whats wrong with this?
are you saying its wrong to have a list of establishments that may or may not fit your personal standards?

I dont see a problem with this.

Nor do I. Stores have the choice to put up what they wish and people have the choice to patronize those stores or not.

 

[bcp]

Nor do I. Stores have the choice to put up what they wish and people have the choice to patronize those stores or not.

now, if people were forced to only shop at stores that said, Merry Chirstmas, or Happy holidays or Git down wif kwanzaa,, then I would have a problem, but, as long as choice is in the mix, I dont see any reason to complain.