The main reason shoppers wander over to the Eaton Centre during the Christimas season is to see all the festive decorations and to listen to the chimes of Christmas music AND the Salvation Army yuletide bells should be a part of this scenario. So, it is an extremely sad turn of events to see the pioneer trading company of Canada, Eaton, sharpening their knives to kill Christmas and thus going down the road of extinction. Boycott them..... there are thousands of other shopping malls and stores all over Toronto where your business will be more welcomed along with your Christianity.
They don’t seem to mind if those Eaton Centre Christmas cash registers ring loudly.
It’s the Salvation Army Yuletide bells they have a problem with.
Scrooge, The Grinch and Cadillac Fairview?
The good news is the first two eventually changed their minds on their Ba! Humbug ways.
The massive real estate giant was still holding firm late Thursday on the policy of not allowing the Salvation Christmas kettle campaign volunteers to ring a tiny red bell to draw attention to their donation kettles.
We’ll see if they still have the stomach for it Friday as the story goes viral around the cyberworld.
“The arrangement not to ring the bells has been a mutual one,” explained Eaton Centre GM Susan Allen of the agreement reached eight years ago. “They have never asked us to change it.”
She said she is “disappointed” with the attention because the real focus should be on the fundraising of which they are very supportive.
But the optics are ugly as people ask, “what the heck is wrong with a little Christmas spirit in a place where thousands are out Christmas shopping?”..........
Friday, December 3, 2010
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