Posted on 10/07/2016 6:52:25 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
As retailers started opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day in recent years to offer deep discounts ahead of Black Friday, some consumers cried foul.
They want the deals, but they don't want to leave their family celebrations to get them. Some also spoke up on behalf of employees of the stores that opened, saying it's unfair to ask them to also step away from family and friends on the holiday.
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Are those organic, fair-trade, free-range, Non-GMO, antibiotic-free cranberries? Hand-Pulped into an Artisanal Sauce?
I agree...to each their own.
One place I worked at paid the employees triple time to work the holidays....everyone loved that. The ones that did not want to work the holiday didn’t have to work, because so many wanted the triple pay.
People would schedule their family dinners around the work hours of their loved ones.
I realize not all companies pay triple, but many do pay double or at least time and half.
To those that do not want to work mandated holidays, another line of work might be good for them.
Unless you're in the military.
I will give thanks that they're open for business.
Sure, staffing was minimal on Thanksgiving, even during my time in Germany during the Cold War. We still had the full complement of guards at our motor pool, and single officers like myself volunteered for staff duty officer.
Obviously the military...and power plant operators, and hospitals, and other essentials, but not Wal-Mart.
‘I appreciated the fact that I was able to eat that day.’
A vending machine — just one time to tide you over in all of those years.
You would rather have mothers work and then go home and fix their holiday meals for their families afterwards.
Do you realize how selfish that is?
At Walmart?
“Unless you’re in the military. I will give thanks that they’re open for business.”
I second that. God bless them.
And God bless those who keep the electric power on and other essentials. The police too. And the firefighters have it really tough on Christmas.
Some work is necessary. But not restaurants and stores.
I always ended up volunteering for Christmas and Thanksgiving so mothers could cook for their families. But all too often there would be some who really should have had the day off.
We have evangelical neighbors we really like..
.they run an organization that caters to 3rd world women and children. The wife LOVES Christmas. ..tree (fake) went up Oct 1st. I don’t think the celebrate Halloween. (I’m more like your German mother)
I buy canned pumpkin on sale for the same reason.
A pastor preached a sermon about stores being open on Sunday. He said they should be closed not out of the goodness of their heart but because it was economically unviable.
I was a waiter at a restaurant while in grad school and they decided to open on T-day but only if they had enough volunteers to staff. I worked 2 T-days and made a boatload of money. People were happy we were open and they did not have to cook or could not make it home to their family.
I always find it at Walmart.I like turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce and cream cheese on nice whole grain bread. You should find it in the canned fruit section, top shelf. As an aside, there’s a nice supermarket that puts out Kosher stuff during our holidays and festivals.
Black Friday is a stupid thing- just go about your normal business
Any store that offers a huge discount on a few items that causes people to camp out overnight should be cited for inciting a riot
Some of the working poor need the paycheck.
Fat cat Republicans sometimes lose sight of the fact that many people don’t have paid vacations, and if they don’t work, they don’t eat.
And perhaps some of the lazy men need to figure out how to cook a turkey for themselves - it really isn’t that hard.
Where was I supposed to find this vending machine to feed my wife and child?
‘Some of the working poor need the paycheck.’
The working poor I was next to would like to enjoy their Christmas and Thanksgiving. But they had no say in the schedule.
Three special holidays out of the year are sacred.
I wish I could hoard Eggnog for the lean times after the holidays. Really, I wish I could. And, answer me this question: why don’t they produce eggnog year-round?
interesting that they chose a pic of Costco, because Costco has always been closed on major holidays, and closes early on Sunday as well.
Others may have said it, but I REFUSE to shop at any retailer that has it’s employees work on Thanksgiving, unless unless the pharmacy is open. I am looking at YOU, Walmart, Target, Walgreens, Kmart, etc.
And it means that I remember the rest of the year, btw.
My wife used to do a time consuming thing where she would stew the cranberries and make a sort of thick cranberry jelly-type sauce with bits of cranberry in it. Then a co-worker gave me a recipe in which you take cranberries and a whole navel orange and some sugar and you grind it all up in a food processor. No cooking is required, and you just make it a day or two ahead of time so that the flavors meld. Really good stuff.
We don’t have a Walmart. Just because “you should find it” doesn’t mean it’s there. Sometimes our HEB looks like something out of a third world country with bare shelves because the manager (and the one before and the one before that and the six before that) forgot to send in the order. I’ve had to do what amounts to a back alley drug deal to get fish - meet the dude at the back of the store, whisper to him what you want so the other customers don’t hear, he goes to the back and brings back ONE package and the cashier and bag boy are all shocked because they didn’t know they had any fish. Then there was the time they used the old excuse of the order wasn’t on the truck but it’ll be on the next truck. Ok, I wanted some tortillas (yes, I usually make them from scratch like I have to do most things but wanted to watch the manager squirm) so, yes ma’am, there will be four on the next truck. So, Mr. Manager, would that be four 8 count packages or 4 cases? Ma’am, it’ll be four 8 count packages.... SERIOUSLY??? I haven’t seen fresh cauliflower in two years. It’s been so long since they’ve had tangerines, I don’t know what they look like anymore which may be a good thing because they get the garbage produce the other stores turn down. And their “fresh” bread comes in frozen. Has Campbell’s even made pork ‘n beans in the last decade? Forget about a boxed angel food cake mix. You can also forget about an apple corer, a spatula and corn sticks even during corn season. It’s a sure bet they won’t have candy corn or caramel this month either. There won’t be any molasses or maple syrup for fall baking. If you want a sugar free version of a product, outside of those pink sweetener packets, you’re outta luck. They won’t have corny dogs but they’ll have every national brand and off brand of cheese and pepperoni pizza well stocked. If you want sausage or hamburger pizza, it ain’t happening. If cheese is on the grocery list, you’ll have to stick with just cheddar, mozzarella and the occasional plastic wrapped sandwich slices of swiss. They haven’t accepted coupons in years and when they did, they’d pull the product off the shelf.
No, this is not a pantry store but a regular grocery store. At least a pantry store should have milk, bread, butter and eggs which this one doesn’t many times.
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