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| - Retail "Sales" became increasingly popular from then out. There were Summer sales, Fall sales, Spring sales, Fourth of July sales, New Year's sales, Chinese New Year's sales, President's day sales, Easter sales, Labor Day sales, George Washington Carver day peanut sales, and many more. There were sales on clothes, sales on games, sales on books, sales on movies, sales on hardware, sales on software, sales on ware, sales on snails, sales on sails and sales on sailing snails. Within the first few years of sales, there were so many overlapping sales people often didn't realize they were saving money. Retailers realized they needed one surefire "zinger" of a sale. They needed a Christmas sale.
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| - Retail "Sales" became increasingly popular from then out. There were Summer sales, Fall sales, Spring sales, Fourth of July sales, New Year's sales, Chinese New Year's sales, President's day sales, Easter sales, Labor Day sales, George Washington Carver day peanut sales, and many more. There were sales on clothes, sales on games, sales on books, sales on movies, sales on hardware, sales on software, sales on ware, sales on snails, sales on sails and sales on sailing snails. Within the first few years of sales, there were so many overlapping sales people often didn't realize they were saving money. Retailers realized they needed one surefire "zinger" of a sale. They needed a Christmas sale. Everyone knows that, whether they like it or not, Christian people (and celebrators of Christmas in general) are gluttonous, consumerist pigs. They're fat, too. What the retailers needed was a season where rampant consumerism and waste could hide under the facade of a cheery, traditional wintertime wonder for the whole family. So, overnight, retailers devised a sectarian Christmas, one where the focus on the fictional, superficial character "Jesus" shifted to a focus on the fictional, superficial character "Santa Claus", effectively watering down one of the most popular and influential religions of all time.
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