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  Yes indeed Howard. I did comment...
  
  First off, there needn't be loads of unemployed shop staff. We could return to the notion of 'service', with a smile. If you can earn peanuts stacking shelves why not earn as much or more by serving the shopping public?
  What is so convenient about the pressure to have as few people employed as is (in)humanly possible?
  A Scrooge is not somebody that rails against consumerist Christmas, but is rather s/he who knows well the cost of something and the value of nothing.
  A neighbour, whether they be a shop assistant or not, is not just for Christmas.
  Let us remember the unfortunates of a true Christmas, those like Doctors and nurses, Police and Fire personnel, the only ones required to work over the holidays, and let everybody else enjoy one of the few times when families can be together?

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