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I'm torn. Thanksgiving is the one holiday that the majority of Americans celebrate. I stay far away from shopping that weekend because I have no interest in the chaos to save a few bucks. I think it is sad to force Target workers to work 8pm Thanksgiving night, but if people want to work to make overtime pay, then fine.
Any thoughts?
to each their own. I worked at circuit city as a commission paid employee and loved black friday. but as a consumer, i could care less about it. the deals aren't as good as it appears. it's usually junk items to get you in the store. but...people seem to love it!
Arguments about workers rights and the breakdown of the family aside, I believe that there are two types of people in this world, those who are dyed-in-the-wool Black Friday addicts, and those who are not. I belong to the latter. I've never been to a Black Friday sale in my life (not even one on Friday), but just from the news coverage that inevitably follows on Friday evening/Saturday morning, I've seen that it's basically the toilet bowl of the human experience: Desperate people camped out in long lines in the cold engaged in what is basically idolatry, trampled store workers, old people, and anyone else too slow to get out of the way once the doors open, altercations over merchandise, and disgruntled shoppers who got there too late. It's the absolute depth of misery, despair, and the pathetic pursuit of Chinese made crap. Why would anyone voluntarily put themselves through that?
Thanksgiving night we usually don't wrap up dessert until at least 11:00-11:30 and then will stay up talking (our usual Thanksgiving group is relatives we see maybe two or three times a year) until the wee hours. Friday mornings my dad and brother and I will get up early to go pheasant hunting and everyone else sleeps in. Then we come home, take a nap, and do a big lunch of Thanksgiving leftovers in the early afternoon. After that it's a lazy day that ends in a bonfire and beers in the backyard. I'll take all of that over a $25 TV any day.
I am against stores being open on Thanksgiving day, and never shop on that day, even if I find myself missing a 'vital' cooking ingredient. I just make do.
Thanksgiving is a national holiday, not a religious holiday. If stores want to be open on Christmas day then I have no problem with that. Not everyone in the country is a christian and not everyone celebrates Christmas. However, no matter what our faith, we are Americans, and should be able to celebrate our national holidays. Corporate greed makes me sick...
I worked in retail decades ago and well remember how happy I and my co-workers were to get the day off. We were mostly struggling financially, but the day off to spend with friends and family was well worth it.
I'm frankly sick of the 'election day sales!', the 'presidents day sales!', the 'labor day sales!', ad nauseum.
people make their own choices for their lives. they dont need someone like you on your high horse thinking they need you to save them from their miserable lives.
Speaking of people on their high horse....
CaptainNJ 10/29 @ 4:14 pm in Sandy thread: so is it time to start saying "we dodged a bullet" and me to start saying "i told you so" yet?
10/29 @ 4:42 pm: so this is the level of hysteria for some flooding in places on the coast that flood regularly during rainstorms?
nyc will get less than nj im sure. nj will have some problems but people arent going to die or lose their homes (they may have a tree fall on it though).
Arguments about workers rights and the breakdown of the family aside, I believe that there are two types of people in this world, those who are dyed-in-the-wool Black Friday addicts, and those who are not. I belong to the latter. I've never been to a Black Friday sale in my life (not even one on Friday), but just from the news coverage that inevitably follows on Friday evening/Saturday morning, I've seen that it's basically the toilet bowl of the human experience: Desperate people camped out in long lines in the cold engaged in what is basically idolatry, trampled store workers, old people, and anyone else too slow to get out of the way once the doors open, altercations over merchandise, and disgruntled shoppers who got there too late. It's the absolute depth of misery, despair, and the pathetic pursuit of Chinese made crap. Why would anyone voluntarily put themselves through that?
Thanksgiving night we usually don't wrap up dessert until at least 11:00-11:30 and then will stay up talking (our usual Thanksgiving group is relatives we see maybe two or three times a year) until the wee hours. Friday mornings my dad and brother and I will get up early to go pheasant hunting and everyone else sleeps in. Then we come home, take a nap, and do a big lunch of Thanksgiving leftovers in the early afternoon. After that it's a lazy day that ends in a bonfire and beers in the backyard. I'll take all of that over a $25 TV any day.
That sounds like a wonderful Thanksgiving...and I also have never been a Black Friday craziac
CaptainNJ 10/29 @ 4:14 pm in Sandy thread: so is it time to start saying "we dodged a bullet" and me to start saying "i told you so" yet?
10/29 @ 4:42 pm: so this is the level of hysteria for some flooding in places on the coast that flood regularly during rainstorms?
nyc will get less than nj im sure. nj will have some problems but people arent going to die or lose their homes (they may have a tree fall on it though).
CaptainNJ 10/29 @ 4:14 pm in Sandy thread: so is it time to start saying "we dodged a bullet" and me to start saying "i told you so" yet?
10/29 @ 4:42 pm: so this is the level of hysteria for some flooding in places on the coast that flood regularly during rainstorms?
nyc will get less than nj im sure. nj will have some problems but people arent going to die or lose their homes (they may have a tree fall on it though).
I used to work in retail and worked numerous Black Fridays (had to be there at 4 in the morning). What a nightmare!
I'm not going anywhere near those stores that whole holiday weekend. You get better prices later in the season.
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