Number of Ratings45

Christmas-Friendly36%

Christmas-Negligent42%

Christmas-Offensive22%

Comment Date: Dec 21 2009 8:00 AM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: Lots of Santa books and children's items but few about Jesus' birth. The cashier was "all business" and did not make any reply when I wished her a merry Christmas.

Comment Date: Dec 15 2009 8:56 AM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: This year the store in Bethesda, Maryland has a display saying Merry Christmas....

Comment Date: Dec 14 2009 12:18 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: No Merry Christmas

Comment Date: Dec 14 2009 10:24 AM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive
Comment: ...no sign of a Christmas tree or anything relating to Christmas.

Comment Date: Dec 11 2009 2:38 PM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive
Comment: The Milford, CT store was very big on this mysterious "holiday" with no mention of Christmas. I purchased a gift card with "Merry Christmas" and asked for a matching envelope and was told "Happy Holidays" was all they had. When I asked for Christmas specifically, the cashier nastily said,"We don't have Happy Kwanzaa" either.

Comment Date: Dec 11 2009 6:41 AM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: I was VERY pleased that the counter clerk last night wished me a merry christmas before I had even thought about it! I felt that the wish was sincere and not just a repeated statement.

Comment Date: Dec 9 2009 4:10 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: I went to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Barnes & Noble last weekend. I told the clerk Merry Christmas and she wished me Merry Christmas too. In additon, the store was playing Christmas music.

Comment Date: Dec 9 2009 6:58 AM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: We stop by B&N very frequently for a coffee and a little reading, and I have heard true Christmas music almost constantly for the past few weeks....much more than in years before.

Comment Date: Dec 8 2009 11:54 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: The store was playing a Christmas album ...lyrics to the song said, "King forever, ceasing never, worship Him, God most High!" Barnes and Noble pleasantly surprised me....

Comment Date: Dec 8 2009 9:14 AM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: Thanks for remembering to say "Merry Christmas to your customers instead of Happy Holidays!" So many people do not remember this at all. Jesus birth is why we celebrate this day on earth!

Comment Date: Dec 6 2009 3:21 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: As part of our Women's Group at church, I helped wrap presents at Barnes & Noble, at their invitation, and had a wonderful time. They provided paper, tape, etc., and allowed us to hand out flyers from our church inviting them to our Christmas Eve Service. They were more than accommodating, and the whole afternoon was a wonderful experience. Although I don't approve of everything for sale in the store, the staff itself was wonderful. God bless them. Our Youth Group is there today wrapping gifts.

Comment Date: Dec 7 2009 2:13 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: Our store invites community organizations to earn funds by gift wrapping for them. The service is free to customers, but we received tips. Our Women's Ministry and our Youth Group between us were given three 4 hour shifts. We were allowed to have available on the table fliers with info. about the church and times of our Christmas Eve service! The Church's name was posted on their sign on our table. Their rules were reasonable. They were friendly and kind to us and encouraged shoppers to take advantage of our service. We said Merry Christmas every time!

Followup Date: Dec 6 2009 2:23 PM
Followup Comment: This Barnes & Noble is at Metro Center in Phoenix.

Comment Date: Dec 7 2009 1:34 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: I didn't notice any Christmas decorations or comments about Christmas....

Comment Date: Dec 7 2009 1:22 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: Online is so uninviting. The store is okay -- has a few things out...

Comment Date: Dec 5 2009 10:20 AM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: Everything was advertised as Holiday, nothing showed that the true reason for the holiday was the birth of Christ.

Comment Date: Dec 7 2009 11:32 AM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: Website says HUGE HOLIDAY SAVINGS ON MILLIONS OF BOOKS. They advertise their HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE. No mention of Christmas anywhere.

Comment Date: Dec 7 2009 11:14 AM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: No Christ-related gift cards available. Plenty of Santa-type, snowflake design, and Happy Holidays, even Hanukkah menorah. When I asked the sales person, she just shrugged and said, "I guess we don't carry anything like that".

Comment Date: Dec 4 2009 10:49 PM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive
Comment: I am an educator with a discount card for B&N, but I will not do any Christmas shopping there because of their tight-lipped response to any mention of Christmas.

Comment Date: Dec 4 2009 8:39 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: I was pleasantly surprised to hear traditional, Christian Christmas song playing throughout the store - celebrating the birth of Christ instead of the gifts of Santa.

Comment Date: Dec 4 2009 8:24 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: Played Christain Christmas songs for their shoppers

Comment Date: Dec 4 2009 12:43 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: Christmas-negligent

Comment Date: Dec 3 2009 6:05 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: The children's section has displays of both Christian an secular expressions of Christmas.

Comment Date: Dec 2 2009 7:13 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: The Barnes and Noble that I frequent plays Christmas music and carols, with the words, during business hours. I would like them, though, to use the words Christmas, Merry Christmas.

Comment Date: Dec 1 2009 11:56 AM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: They were very into teddy bears and snowmen, but no nativities and no Merry Christmas.

Comment Date: Dec 9 2009 4:45 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: There was a large table with Christmas books and also a large table with Bibles featured prominently in the front entrance of the store.

Comment Date: Nov 30 2009 4:03 PM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: I was very pleased to find 2 tables of Christmas books displayed. I would like to see this closer to the front door but at least there were the tables set aside. Thank you.

Comment Date: Nov 30 2009 12:54 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: I am very disappointed in Barnes & Noble once again for neglecting Merry Christmas in their advertisements. Two years ago they were on Focus on the Family's bad list. Last year they got the mediocre list. This year, they went back to bad. Though they are not offensive, they are negligent. I will not be shopping with them this upcoming year if I can help it.

Comment Date: Nov 30 2009 9:43 AM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: The Barnes & Noble in Northville, MI had a prominent display right when you walked in of Christmas-related books. I picked one up to purchase. They also had a large table of gift books and a large table of purely Christian books. I also picked out several gifts and told the cashier they were Christmas gifts and she was very friendly and we talked about Christmas.

Comment Date: Nov 30 2009 9:23 AM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive
Comment: The Barnes and Noble retailer goes out of its way to avoid Christmas. Everything is "holiday." But I posted this review to draw attention to an online competitor, Amazon.com. On their front page, they link to a Christmas Corner where they sell everything from contemporary Christmas music to nativity sets!

Comment Date: Nov 29 2009 8:11 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: When I paid for my Christmas shopping, I said, "Thank you and have a Merry Christmas!" To which the cashier simply said you too.

Comment Date: Nov 29 2009 5:36 PM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive
Comment: Went to Web Site and not one featured book was about Christmas. Even the Children"s book feature was Green Eggs and Ham not the Grinch who stole Christmas.

Comment Date: Nov 29 2009 4:40 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: The in store gift wrappers said Happy Holidays to everyone as they entered the store and left the store instead of Merry Christmas.

Comment Date: Nov 29 2009 3:14 PM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive

Comment Date: Nov 28 2009 6:49 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: I would like to see more use of the word Christmas in the website and store.

Comment Date: Nov 28 2009 3:45 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: There are a few items for purchase that mention Christmas (paper cards, gift cards), but nothing in way of decoration or Christmas themed books on display on the front web-page. Still, *much* better than Boarders.

Comment Date: Nov 28 2009 9:07 AM
Rating: Christmas-Friendly
Comment: Nice!

Comment Date: Nov 28 2009 8:32 AM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive
Comment: Too liberal.

Comment Date: Nov 27 2009 5:05 PM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive
Comment: If there was no Christmas, then there would be no need to shop and spend all kinds of money in there store!!!!! Christmas is the reason people are shopping and spending money.

Comment Date: Nov 26 2009 9:33 AM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: It's CHRISTmas not Holliday. Come on. I am so sick of being aware of other religions to the point we are supposed to be ashamed of our own. Have a Hannukah section, have an Islamic section, but don't exclude the Christians.

Comment Date: Nov 25 2009 6:11 AM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: WENT TO A FAIRLY NEW BARNES/NOBLE STORE IN NORTH JACKSON, MS. THIS PAST WEEK END...THERE WERE A VERY CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY DECORATIONS IN STORE WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THE WAY OF NATIVITY...WAS NOT AT ALL IMPRESSED WITH THE PERSONELL.

Comment Date: Nov 24 2009 9:43 PM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive
Comment: The title says it all. Same goes for this store as my other Christmas-Offensive comments.

Comment Date: Nov 24 2009 9:20 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: Barnes & Noble wants your holiday dollar but does not want to recognize the reason for the season.

Comment Date: Nov 24 2009 8:14 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: The only mention of "Christmas" is in a book or CD title.

Comment Date: Nov 24 2009 3:40 PM
Rating: Christmas-Offensive
Comment: This store is full of prominently displayed offensive books. I have not visited their store since last year around Halloween, there were occult and vampire books everwhere. In addition, they display books with foul words in the title, as well as having sexually explicit material in full view. I would never bring a child into this store, and avoid it myself. I don't care whether they use the word Christmas in light of all the smut they sell.

Comment Date: Nov 24 2009 3:15 PM
Rating: Christmas-Negligent
Comment: Website has HOLIDAY section,but no mention of Christmas, but do offer a gift card that says Merry Christmas. Looks like that want the sales but not willing to mention the real reason for the season!