Yes, it’s that time again already – October. Just listen to the sound of the hysterical Christmas marketing campaign revving up to full power. Crooked Timber has and finds that Walmart is already deliberately scaring children into making their parents buy them toys:
Walmart’s Christmas Site
Posted by Harry
Susan Linn from the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood was just on the Chris Evans show (of all places) describing Walmart’s new website, on which kids can choose a bunch of toys to add to a list which Walmart will email to their parents. Evans clearly didn’t believe Linn’s description of the site, especially the bit where she says that when you reject a toy one of the elves says that the other elf will lose his job. I think Linn is terrific, but I, too, thought she must be making that bit up, despite, like Evans, having already heard the astonishing accents the elves have been given.
No. Try it. It really is unbelievable. Come on folks, defend poor old Walmart. What good could come of this for the wider world?
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