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I’m sure sales and paychecks will still be made when workers arrive at 6 am instead of midnight on thanksgiving evening. Some services and businesses require it for the good of society, but a typical retailer...nope.

I'll get into trouble on this one, but I tend to agree with you. It's pushing back into Thanksgiving now, it wasn't that way in the 1970's. I can see things like you said such as hospitals, police/fire, gas stations and restaurants on major highways and so forth for travellers. Same thing for factories and mills. My father worked at a mill and they cannot shut down the furnaces, if they go cold, the steel would hardened and the furnace would be gone. The mill is so protected against that where just in case if the mains power from the grid would go down, they had their own power plant, built in 1919 I think.

I think if there is a middle ground, people can work half shifts to be with their families if they can.