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WALMART ISSUES NEW PRESS RELEASE; NO MENTION OF "CHRISTMAS"
Refers to 3 days left of "Holiday Shopping"; ignores Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years

Wal-Mart's latest Press Release titled "Holiday Procrastinator? Your not alone" deals with last-minute "holiday" shoppers. The release begins by saying, "With only 3 days of holiday shopping left, Wal-Mart offers..." Wal-Mart refuses to mention the "Holiday" that is 3 days away, while completely going against their previous statement that says the "Holidays" don't end until Kwanzaa, Hanukka and New Years are through with:

"The winter months are filled with holidays – from Thanksgiving through New Year’s and including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and others...We want the holiday season to be special for everyone, regardless of which holidays they celebrate."

So why then are there only 3 days left of "holiday" shopping when the ad campaign is to go through New Year's? Isn't Wal-Mart spitting in the face of people that celebrate holidays like Kwanzaa and Hanukkah - the very people it alleges it's trying to be diverse and represent by not saying "Christmas"? Hanukkah begins on the night of December 25th, and goes for 8 days - each day they give gifts yet Wal-Mart completely excludes this holiday by saying there's only 3 days left of Christma...err "Holiday" shopping.
How about Kwanzaa, also mentioned as one of the "holidays" in the ad campaign, "Home for the Holidays". Kwanzaa begins on December 26th and continues on until January 1st. Yet Wal-Mart again ignores the fact that Kwanzaa shoppers have more than 3 days left to do their shopping...
So what then is this unspoken, or unspeakable "holiday" which marks the end of the "holiday shopping"? Wal-Mart doesn't say, but simple math shows us that it would be Christmas - the celebration of the birth of Christ. If that's offensive to them, then they'll soon find out that Christians won't be shopping at their store.

Wal-Mart's release also states their "Holiday hours"

Wal-Mart Holiday Store Hours
• All stores will be open until 6:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
• 24-hour stores will reopen at 6:00 a.m. on Monday, December 26.
• Non 24-hour stores will open at their normal opening time on Monday, December 26.

Once again Wal-Mart is seen mentioning "Holiday" hours, but listing no other holidays except Christmas. Wouldn't it be better put, "Wal-Mart Christmas store hours"? I suppose we should thank them for saying "Christmas Eve", rather than "the night falling on December 24th".
One must wonder how Wal-Mart keeps its low prices when it has to be paying a "Diversity team" huge overtime pay for constantly monitoring and censoring all "accidental" usages of the unspeakable holiday.
Let's not forget that Wal-Mart started out this year by blatantly eliminating "Christmas" on their website, which had a Kwanzaa page, a Hanukkah page, yet when Christmas was entered in to the search, only a "Holiday Page" showed up, containing Christmas items. Not until the Catholic League boycotted Wal-Mart did they apologize. Wal-Mart has excersized blatant anti-Christian discrimination this year and doesn't deserve a penny of our earnings that God has blessed us with. Please shop at Target until Wal-Mart repents of it's deeds.

“Do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness (boycott), but rather expose them (picket).” Ephesians 5:11

View the full Wal-Mart Press Release here:
Holiday Procrastinator? You're Not Alone.
http://walmartstores.com/GlobalWMStoresWeb/navigate.do?catg=26&contId=5860

Contact Wal-Mart:
1-800-WALMART
dan.fogleman@wal-mart.com

WAL-MART'S hypocritical advertising violates it's own policy! Note that under "Home for the Holidays" Wal-Mart has the Spanish phrase which states "Christmas with the family" ("Navidad" = Christmas, not "holidays")
(signs appeared in the Stockton Walmart Supercenter) Call and express your disapproval to the District Manager: -Rick Adams- (209) 473-2796 ---------

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