I've noticed in the news this week the unfortunate trend of retailers starting to open on Thanksgiving evening. It always seemed kind of an exciting idea to get up at 4 in the morning to run over and line up at Target for Black Friday. Over the years the time to get in line backed up more and more until people were lining up Thanksgiving day and waiting all night.
Target and other retailers saw pockets full of credit cards just standing outside of their buildings and couldn't wait to run it through the register so now you can start shopping when you shouldn't be. On Thanksgiving day.
I heard that some people started petitions against these stores opening on a holiday like this. I believe one petition got tens of thousands signatures. That's probably not enough to make a difference. I mean, Texas had over 100,000 sign a petition to leave the USA and they are still a part of the country. Besides, retailers will look at this petition and then look at the dollars running through their stores before midnight and it will be an easy decision.
The shoppers have spoken.
In a few more years I'll write another blog that will start, "Do you remember the days when stores were closed on Thanksgiving?"
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