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Maybe the stores ARE thinking about the retail workers.
By opening stores on Thanksgiving, it alleviates some of the crush on Black Friday. Some people will want to spend the holiday with their families, some people will want to shop. But come Friday morning, some of the people who've swelled the masses of shoppers on previous years, putting some of those retail workers in danger, won't be there.
That...is actually a good point. One I didn't even consider, and I never had a problem with stores being open on Thanksgiving.
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More than that, your presumption that ALL retail workers don't want to work on Thanksgiving is false.
Very true. I work the deli at a grocery market right now, but I certainly don't have an issue working Thanksgiving.
Most department stores decided to open at 8 PM on Thanksgiving evening in order to compete, and now Simon malls decided to keep their malls open at 8 pm as well all until 10 pm on Black Friday for 26 hours straight, and told all retail stores located in the mall to follow mall holiday hours.
Wow what an evil world we have been turned into. I would be fine if CEO's and corporates left their families on important holidays and worked in the stores themselves that day. Such a greedy, cold hearted and selfish!
I hope that everyone contacts their local congressman to pass a law that forbids retailers to be open on major family holidays!!!!!! Unfortunately online petitions don't work because corporates ignore them despite hundreds of thousands of signatures mainly from workers!
Gahh greedy corporates! Isn't 362 days a year enough?!
We don't need to pass a law. People need to vote with their feet and stay HOME on Thanksgiving. These stores wouldn't be opening if people weren't shopping.
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I'm thankful that Maine only allows stores of a certain square footage to be open on Thanksgiving,Christmas and Easter. Larger stores can't open. I don't know that it's fair,but I'm glad to be able to count on those days off. My company has stores throughout New England and New York,and in states where it is allowed,they are open with reduced hours. People seem to be able to plan accordingly.
God Bless Maine, their politicians and those good hearted people.
Massachusetts ban large stores from being open on Thanksgiving as well....
We don't need to pass a law. People need to vote with their feet and stay HOME on Thanksgiving. These stores wouldn't be opening if people weren't shopping.
We don't need to pass a law. People need to vote with their feet and stay HOME on Thanksgiving. These stores wouldn't be opening if people weren't shopping.
A law must be passed, otherwise corporates/CEO won't listen or care.
Unfortunately there will always be some customers hungry for black "Friday" sales wanting to be first person getting that deal.
We don't need to pass a law. People need to vote with their feet and stay HOME on Thanksgiving. These stores wouldn't be opening if people weren't shopping.
People already do. We have seen evidence of that, right here. Those who don't like it, stay home. Those that want to do it, do it.
The OP wants to make it a law that everyone has to do it the way the OP wants it done. The OP wants to control millions of people over their choice in shopping. It's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Maybe the stores ARE thinking about the retail workers.
By opening stores on Thanksgiving, it alleviates some of the crush on Black Friday. Some people will want to spend the holiday with their families, some people will want to shop. But come Friday morning, some of the people who've swelled the masses of shoppers on previous years, putting some of those retail workers in danger, won't be there.
More than that, your presumption that ALL retail workers don't want to work on Thanksgiving is false. There will be retailers that give employees a choice, work on Thanksgiving and get Friday off, or work on Friday and get Thanksgiving off. Many will CHOOSE to work on Thanksgiving. And many would like to work the whole weekend, because they are making money that they, in turn, can use for Christmas.
Baloney. Nobody wants to work on major family holidays. Go ask any person working in retail face to face and stop listening to online forum people pretending to work in retail saying they prefer to work.
Thanksgiving, Easter & Christmas = NO shopping.
End of story
A law must be passed, otherwise corporates/CEO won't listen or care.
Unfortunately there will always be some customers hungry for black "Friday" sales wanting to be first person getting that deal.
Why not pass a law that anyone caught shopping on Thanksgiving is imprisoned?
Oh please, dramatize everything much?
You have no clue how my life is just because I chose not to deal with the craziness for the holidays with parts of my family.
What YOU think is right as far as your little online petition goes does NOT represent most Americans either.
Take a step off that soap box and quit making assumptions about something you really know nothing about.
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