Happy Holidays tops Merry Christmas in survey

[Kadie]

Happy Holidays tops Merry Christmas in survey
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? The verdict is in and more Americans this year are opting to wish people a happy holiday.

In its fourth annual survey, gift basket company GiftBasketsDeluxe.com analyzed its gift card messages and found a record number of 60 percent of gift baskets were sent using the term holidays as opposed to a more traditional Christmas.

The company said this was a stark reversal of the previous three-year trend when Christmas prevailed.

Only 27 percent of those surveyed used the term holidays instead of Christmas in 2006 compared to 43 percent in 2005 and 58 percent in 2004.

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But not every one agrees.

One U.S. store, the jean and boot barn Hewlett & Dunn in Collierville, Tennessee, is offering its customers a 5 percent discount if they say "Merry Christmas."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071218/lf_nm_life/holidays_greeting_dc_2

[terisan]

1. Paying people to say Merry Christmas!!!! How tacky. nt

[madeline_con]

2. That's such bullshit.

There ARE other holidays being celebrated.


I got "Merry Christmased" today. I told the clerk, "Have a good holiday." She replied, "Merry Christmas."

Same one I had explained the facts about Saddam Hussien and 9/11 to when she defended the war by saying she's from a "Military family."

:eyes:

[blondeatlast]

4. Oh, I shouldn't think this, I know, but I would have told her: "Well, it's a good thing

your family fights intolerance and ignorance over there so you don't have to fight your own so hard over here..."

I'm bad--but sometimes it's just sooo tempting to be cruel to the willfully stupid.

:spank:

[madeline_con]

6. I shop there too much to stomp out after insulting them

whether deservedly so, or not.

[blondeatlast]

3. Can we declare victory yet?! LOL! For my family, doing otherwise might be professional ruin.

We have good friends and business colleagues all over the world of all different faiths. We celebrate everything from Diwali (Mr. B@L is from New Delhi) to the Feast of the Epiphany (one last fling before we pack it away.

It's all good.

Of course we say "Happy Holidays."

[magellan]

5. As someone more astute than I pointed out recently

..."Happy Holidays" is just shorthand for wishing someone a nice Christmas and New Year's. Two HOLIDAYS, one greeting.

Those who have nothing better to do than complain about people wishing them "Happy Holidays" get a "Have a shitty New Year" from me.

[China_cat]

7. It's so damned simple.

The numbers of people saying happy holidays and putting it in their cards, etc, is just backlash from being told that they HAVE to say 'Merry christmas'. The more MC is pushed, the more HH is going to be seen and heard. Just the contrary nature of human beings.