Not me, neighbor. The annual "door-buster" orgy never has been my cup of tea. I can recall close relatives looking more toward Black Friday, with an ambiguous mix of dread and a gambler's rush, than Thanksgiving. But the appeal of discounts at the price of crushing crowds has never been sold to me as a bargain. I think I'd rather have my gums scraped.
Never have I seen the appeal. As to the encroachment of these sales on the national holiday, I'm not happy with there no longer being a distinct line, and at midnight, between the two events. I wouldn't go anywhere near a Wal-Mart or a Mall for one of these events, and I don't like the subversive quality on every possible kind of family and community of increasingly not allowing employees the same kind of fellowship.
Maybe an attack on another side of retailing having as close an interest in the Holiday could bring their fellow retailers back behind a proper line.
Proclaim the Thanksgiving Day holiday as a fast rather than a feast.
My participation in these events is zero. I don’t even get close to them. I meant ‘we’ in the collective sense as a society.