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YOUR PRESSURE WORKED : Macy's backs down -- removed the most offensive parts of window display but still keeps "Gay Pride Week" calendar of events.
Yes, your pressure worked. Macy's Department Store in downtown Boston started out on Friday, May 2, with a very public tribute to "gay pride week" (now taking place in Boston) in a prominent streetside display window near their main entrance. The feelings of their customers apparently weren't important to Macy's management. Your voices were heard loud and clear -- and Macy's backed down. (But they still don't get it on their public support of a week of rather raunchy homosexual activity.) Monday morning: Male mannequins with (apparently) enlarged Tuesday morning: After tidal wave of your calls, mannequins Misleading to callers. Tuesday morning we got a from a lady who told us that Macy's told her the display had been taken down! So we got right on the phone. Well, we tried, anyway. Macy's phones to the Boston store were not working, apparently jammed with your calls! When we finally got through, the store manager's number now led to the gift wrap department! We were finally told by an employee that the display "was taken down
yesterday. "Well, not exactly. When we went to see for ourselves, we saw they had taken
down (1) the offensive mannequins and (2) the web site addresses for Boston
Pride and the AIDS Action Committee (publisher of the infamous "Little Black
Book"). But the big "Boston Pride" calendar of events still greeted
passersby. Macy's still seems to feel they need to promote this. Face-to-face conversation with Boston management. When we visited the Boston store's executive offices on Tuesday morning, a store executive who identified herself only as "Robin" got right to the point. It was a pretty short discussion. She didn't hide her distain for us or our views on this subject.
At that point, she made it clear that we needed to leave. Frankly, I couldn't get out of there fast enough. The fact that I've been shopping at that very store for over 25 years didn't seem to interest her. Here's the email that Macy's is sending back to people who have contacted them on this. It reflects what it's like to interact with their management -- a polite but quite condescending attitude that they're right and the "riff-raff" that complains is wrong. Note the insulting implication that the homosexual activities in "Pride" week are considered no different than the being black or Irish. Macy's also says that they consider people involved in homosexual behavior simply one of the "markets we serve." So despite their pandering, it's pretty clear that Macy's "cultural diversity" doesn't include you or your shopping dollars. Let them know how you feel about that. (Some people are mailing them their cut up Macy's credit card!)
Our message to Macy's: Don't do this again! Obviously, your phone calls and emails made much more of an impression than Macy's wants to admit. But they still don't seem to think we're serious about this. More phone calls wouldn't hurt -- the message: don't ever do this again !
YOU MUST KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!!! It's very important that a huge
chain like Macy's understands that this is not a trivial matter, and that
they're playing with fire when they publicly promote this activity, and snub
their customers in the process. |
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