ATLANTA - National retail chain, Arme’s (NYSE: ARS) currently being investigated by the US Justice
Department for racist hiring practices, has come under fire for using the
phrase “Happy Holidays” in its over 3,000 US stores.
The Atlanta-based company, facing a sex discrimination suit
from over 5,000 former and current female employees, recently made the change
that will go in effect this November.
Director of Marketing, Toni Sticks, and currently awaiting
trial for insider trading explained, “We are trying to make our stores open and
welcoming to all of our 200,000 daily customers, regardless of belief.”
But many see this as yet another store bowing to the
pressure political correction.
Head of the American Family Association, Jeremy Arschloch,
has called for a boycott of Arme’s,
in which fewer than a quarter of employees have any health benefits and over
half require public assistance programs to get by. “The censorship of the word
‘Christmas’ by this store is yet another battle in the War on Christmas. The
use of ‘Happy Holidays’ is an affront to the good Christian people of this
nation. I urge everyone to boycott this store at once!”
“It’s one thing to allow a dozen employees to die in a
warehouse fire because of the lack of a functioning sprinkler system and
various other violations of the fire code,” stated Mary Annadale, a frequent
shopper of Arme’s, “but this fear of
‘offending’ someone has gone too far. I might have to think about shopping
somewhere else.”
Arnold Arme, the president of the company, grandson of the
original founder, and financial supporter to a right-wing militia known for
killing a Lansing, MI police officer, said he was currently rethinking the
company’s decision because of the backlash.
