Would you be more likely to buy a tree if...

[Aidensmom]

...it was called a Holiday Tree or a Christmas Tree?

Will calling it a Holiday Tree be a successful marketing strategy to sell more trees to people who do not celebrate Christmas?

I am of the opinion that no more trees will be sold. I think that, first of all, the vast majority of trees are used to Celebrate Christmas and not another holiday, and secondly that if you wanted a tree to celebrate another holiday, the fact that the store called them a Christmas tree would not stop you. After all, a tree by any other name is still a tree....

 

[Rex Rules]

Doesn't matter a bit to me what it is called, as long as it is REAL and not artificial. I just love that smell of tree inside the house - so does our cat, he has been sleeping under the tree every night.

 

[laurajetter]

Maybe, maybe not, but if I saw a place advertising them as 'holiday' trees, you can be sure I'm going to pass right on by until I found a place that sold 'Christmas' trees

 

[Laura]

It doesn't matter to me what it's called. Marketing strategies aren't always effective, but that doesn't stop businesses from trying to make more money by giving something a more inclusive name.

 

[Marseeya]

Doesn't make a bit of difference to me.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

I voted other. I have a tree, I put it up out of obligation to my MIL. I really don't think the name would make a difference though with regard to sales.

 

[golfgal]

Maybe, maybe not, but if I saw a place advertising them as 'holiday' trees, you can be sure I'm going to pass right on by until I found a place that sold 'Christmas' trees

I would be following right along with you. I guess I am just tired of Christians having to take a back seat to everyone else and any religious reference has to be changed to accommodate a couple people that don't like it.

 

[Laura]

I would be following right along with you. I guess I am just tired of Christians having to take a back seat to everyone else and any religious reference has to be changed to accommodate a couple people that don't like it.

From an ex-Christian's perspective, I find it laughable that Christians think they are having to take a back seat to any other religion. What religion is Christianity taking a back seat to when retailers refer to a holiday tree instead of a Christmas tree? None. It's just an inclusive term. I don't think it makes a difference to most people. If they want a tree, they'll buy it no matter what it's labeled.

 

[golfgal]

From an ex-Christian's perspective, I find it laughable that Christians think they are having to take a back seat to any other religion. What religion is Christianity taking a back seat to when retailers refer to a holiday tree instead of a Christmas tree? None. It's just an inclusive term. I don't think it makes a difference to most people. If they want a tree, they'll buy it no matter what it's labeled.

I disagree. Everything around Christmas is now labeled "Holiday" why? It is Christmas, plain and simple. How about we start calling Menorahs "Holiday Candles" or Kwanzaa stuff "Holiday whatevers". It doesn't happen in the reverse. Christians are expected to defer to everyone else for fear of offending them. The public schools can't sing Christmas songs but they can sing Kwanzaa songs and celebrate Kwanzaa. We can't have Christmas parties anymore but the kids "celebrated" Ramadan one day. The schools have all kinds of recognition days for other religions/faiths but you better not mention Santa or anything to do with Christmas or someone will sue you.

 

[vivilasvegas]

In all of this hub-bub, they forget those of us who really don't care! You know what, I'm just happy to get a day off of work. And I wouldn't care if it was for Christmas, Kwanzaa, any of the Jewish holidays or what not.

So there.

 

[Marseeya]

In all of this hub-bub, they forget those of us who really don't care! You know what, I'm just happy to get a day off of work. And I wouldn't care if it was for Christmas, Kwanzaa, any of the Jewish holidays or what not.

So there.

Hear, hear!



I totally agree!

 

[Laura]

I disagree. Everything around Christmas is now labeled "Holiday" why? It is Christmas, plain and simple. How about we start calling Menorahs "Holiday Candles" or Kwanzaa stuff "Holiday whatevers". It doesn't happen in the reverse. Christians are expected to defer to everyone else for fear of offending them.

What you're talking about is advertising by stores. There are many Jews out there buying gifts for Hanukah too, so the term "holidays" is meant to include them as well as Christians. Inclusive, not exclusive. It's not negating Christmas, just acknowledging that other shoppers are in stores for other reasons. Christmas isn't going anywhere, if you haven't noticed. I think it's sad you think being inclusive means Christians have to defer to anything.

The public schools can't sing Christmas songs but they can sing Kwanzaa songs and celebrate Kwanzaa. We can't have Christmas parties anymore but the kids "celebrated" Ramadan one day. The schools have all kinds of recognition days for other religions/faiths but you better not mention Santa or anything to do with Christmas or someone will sue you.

This is a completely separate issue. Celebrating other religions' holidays in school but not Christian ones is ridiculous. For example, if I went to a winter pageant at an elementary school and heard "Hava Nagila" sung and so forth, but no Christian songs like "Silent Night", I think that would be stupid and the Christian parents should be complaining.

 

[Crankyshank]

It doesn't matter what the tree is called because I'm still buying one. I do not consider the Christmas tree a symbol of the Christmas the Christian religious holiday. I get one to honor the pagan traditions incorporated in the holiday.

 

[Laura]

It doesn't matter what the tree is called because I'm still buying one. I do not consider the Christmas tree a symbol of the Christmas the Christian religious holiday. I get one to honor the pagan traditions incorporated in the holiday.

I agree. I got one for the same reason. I think it was called a Christmas tree at Sears, but I'm not quite positive.