Black Friday now on Thanksgiving Day! (Christmas, regular, death, independent)
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Thanksgiving as Day to Shop Meets Rejection - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/thanksgiving-day-shop-meets-rejection-123025036.html - broken link)
I was wondering when retailers would ruin Thanksgiving for their workers and customers.
Thanksgiving as Day to Shop Meets Rejection - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/thanksgiving-day-shop-meets-rejection-123025036.html - broken link)
I was wondering when retailers would ruin Thanksgiving for their workers and customers.
I would say they already had, way before this. Seriously who in the heck gets up at four in the morning to go shopping after eating half their body-weight in food? I'd never do that.
Thanksgiving as Day to Shop Meets Rejection - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/thanksgiving-day-shop-meets-rejection-123025036.html - broken link)
I was wondering when retailers would ruin Thanksgiving for their workers and customers.
Don't waste your time. It's not uncommon for a store to have 5 items. Scam.
The grocery stores in this area (Giant and Safeway are the largest with Food Lion and Whole Foods way behind them along with some independents) have been open Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and New Year's for the last several years. I can't speak for Food Lion or Whole Foods since I don't know anyone who works there but the Giant and Safeway employees get triple time for Thanksgiving and Christmas and double for Easter and New Year's.
Years ago when I worked in a glass factory we shut down from Christmas Eve through New Year's but the guys that worked clean-up and maintenance over that time got paid triple time for coming in. Those of us who didn't work the break got paid for most of the days off. Easter was time and a half. We also had a shift differential. The plant shut down at 7AM Thanksgiving morning ande didn't re-open until 11PM the following Monday (which is the first day of deer season in PA so everyone would have taken vacation anyway).
If these retailers had any brains they would cancel the black friday 6am deal fiasco this year. We got youth gangs roaming US streets freely here lately, occupy loons who think everybody owes em something all ready to pounce. The usual tramplings and fistfights over a cabbage patch doll may really get ugly this year. Of course that is what THEY want to happen.
After years of chasing BF "deals", i've finally realized it's all bogus.
That crap they put on sale, forcing us to stand in line at ridiculous hours is all junk.
All that merchandise is cheap crap, that doesn't last. Many top stores even sell BF only models on things like TV's, that are inferior to the regular stuff.
I will go out on BF, but late and I won't chase big ticket items, people have literally been killed and crushed to death over electronics that aren't even worth it. Last year several people even lost their kids in the stores chasing toys and videogame consoles.
Look at the model #'s and SKU's on those items at places like Walmart, Best Buy and Target, it's all junk. There's a reason why they're selling it so cheap, it is! The stuff on sale typically has no advanced features and is the bare minimum in quality.
When I get a new flat screen TV, I want it to be top of the line in quality so it last. Not some no name brand trash for $300.
Also it's outrageous that underpaid employees have to give up their holiday to deal with massive amounts of customers for long hours.
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