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No joy for Christians at Woolies

NEWSWATCH: Retail chain Woolworth's decision to pull Christian magazines Lig, Leef, Joy and Juig because they don't sell well enough has miffed some of its customers, who have sworn that they will never shop at Woolies ever again, reports Times Live, Memeburn.com and iafrica.com.
No joy for Christians at Woolies
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  • Times Live: Woolworths loses faith... The Woolies move has got some customers hot under the collar and threatening to never shop at the chain ever again. So there!
  • Memeburn.com: Woolworths runs into Christian backlash on Facebook... It seems it's not always nice to have vocal customers, especially when they are very cross with you.
  • iafrica.com: Woolies angers Christians... Bizcommunity not sure we get the one comment on Facebook... 'I totally agree that this is a very bad decision by Woolworths to publicly announce something like this. I will also not shop at Wool-worthless anymore...' So does that mean that had Woolworths just had the magazines do a very quiet disappearing act it would have all been OK? We're confused.

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