Stand for Christmas<\/a> rates retailers in terms of their Christmas-friendliness.<\/p>\nIn my innocence, I assumed that any retailer would welcome the Christmas spending compulsion. But it seems that just being happy to take our money isn’t Christmas-friendly enough. For a good rating, a retailer has to weally, weally wub Christmas.<\/p>\n
To be more specific, to meet the approval of Focus on the Family (” a California non profit religious corporation”) a top-rated retailer has to do things like specifically mention Christmas in its advertising or have nativity scene.<\/p>\n
My stupid atheist misremembering of the new testament made me think it contained ideas such as it not being possible to serve both god and mammon.<\/p>\n
I stand corrected. Focus on the Family make it quite clear that – if you own a shop and you DON’T name check the baby Jesus to up your profits – you are betraying Christianity.<\/p>\n
Now, just in case you don’t much like the idea of shopping at places that Focus on the Family are talking up, I’ve assembled a list of shame from the ratings*:<\/p>\n
These shops got the lowest Christmas-friendly rating, with more than half of respondents thinking their attitude to Christmas was “offensive”:
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Xmas-hating Hall of Shame<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
I suggest you take your cash there. \ud83d\ude42
\n( If you have to buy any presents for children, you may be relieved to know that Toys R Us was only slightly less Christmas-hating..)<\/p>\n
* Please note, ratings can go down as well as up. This is just today’s.<\/p>\n