The year Amazon.com replaced Santa
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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