Business
At the end of this tedious coronavirus year, let's have a look around the global village and see how the world's retailers are celebrating Christmas. All you need to do is click the link embedded in each company name and watch the commercial they have designed to promote sales during the festive season. If the birth of Christ was re-enacted today, one wonders how biblical figures would manage to celebrate a Covid Christmas. Perhaps the shepherds would only be allowed to view the babe in the crib if they took a fever test and wore protective masks. Or, would Joseph and Mary hold virtual tours of the stable on Zoom?Not a Christian and don't celebrate Christmas? Don't worry, no one's perfect. Hopefully, we also have many Moslems, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and agnostics among our international subscribers. These readers can still enjoy the creativity and humour that retail marketing departments and advertising agencies have employed in a relentless assault on customer pockets...