Let The Holiday Season Madness Begin.....
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I can't even, Spidey. I have started shopping (with 4 kids, 1 steady income, and an aversion to using credit, that's the only way to do it), but that's insane. I don't even leave the house the day after T-giving.
Why.why.why do this to employees? Black Friday means FRIDAY, not Thursday!
I am not sure when it became the trend to open on Thursday. Heavens, do the employees not deserve to spend time at home on Thanksgiving? What would the pilgrims say?
I'll never venture out on Thanksgiving or Black Friday. I shop through the year when an item calls to me for a special person, but most are hand made. Working on a "family" holiday just isn't right.
This is a horrible thing to do the employees and the families but it won't stop unless people stop going to the stores during these hours. I can't figure out who wants to shop on Thanksgiving day anyway.
I try not to leave the house the entire weekend after Thanksgiving. Not even for groceries. Nothing is worth that amount of aggravation. I was on the other side of the register for 8 years, though never right on Thanksgiving, so I do know how physically AND emotionally draining it is. Nope, shopping that weekend is not for me.
When I was a kid and got something for Christmas that needed batteries and didn't have any, I had to wait until the 26th because there was no place to buy batteries on Christmas day. There was nothing open on the big holidays back then.
We're so fortunate to have a holiday like Thanksgiving, where we can get together with family and friends and take stock of all our blessings. What a depressing, spiritually void way to spend such a special day-- fighting crowds and standing in lines at retail stores. It's the children of these shoppers I feel most sorry for (in addition to the employees who have to work). What family bonds are being strengthened or lasting memories being made at Kmart?
Also, it's terrible when you have a family member missing from your holiday because they are working.
I think it is sad, sad thing that retailers are such a money hungry that they sacrifice the employees family time to make an extra cash. However, they would not do it-if they were not people supporting it.
Yet, you are still here with us, didn't die of impatience, didya?
No, but when I was 10 and needed a battery, it was hell waiting until the next day.
But then you were a child and it was hell waiting, but this present day madness of needing to shop
24/7/365 is out of control.
I am not doing a lot of shopping this year.Sure would not go on Thanksgiving. Black friday is out also. I tried that last year and must say for what you save the time and hassle aint worth it.
When your 10, 15 minutes can seem like an eternity.
But I'm not 10 and I would like for all of these things to be closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas. My niece worked for Universal in Orlando and they would be open on Thanksgiving. How strange is that?
The pilgrims would have been too busy heating up water for a bath, tending the garden, tending the animals, cooking food from scratch, quilting by hand, Taking their children for a bath down by the river and beating them against the rocks. I bet work didn't stop for their Thanksgiving either.
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Actually, after giving this some thought, they probably would have said, "Maggie, ye get down to the olde village and bring me back a new shovel. Thy are on sale."
When your 10, 15 minutes can seem like an eternity.
But I'm not 10 and I would like for all of these things to be closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas. My niece worked for Universal in Orlando and they would be open on Thanksgiving. How strange is that?
WORSE than strange--the word is GREEDY!