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The year Amazon.com replaced Santa

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This Guardian story about holiday shopping leaves the slightly unsettling impression that "Boxing Day", for the purposes of retailing, now begins in the UK at about 6 p.m. on the 24th of December. Maybe those billboards that plead with us to keep the Christ in Christmas should just be changed to request that the Christmas be kept in it?

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