In the first of what is sure to be many holiday advertising fuck ups, Lowes is taking heat for calling Christmas trees family trees in one of their recent catalogs. “Come on kids, let’s go take a nice family trip down to Lowe’s and pick up a family tree for the living room. After all, it’s nice to stick a tree in the house isn’t it?”
Lowe’s has apologized for what it is calling a “breakdown in our own creative process.” Um, right. Like no one noticed the non-sensicle heading, “family trees,” above a shot of those cone shaped trees people like to put decorations on and presents underneath? Were human resources’ PC police running the creative department the day the catalog was created?
