Posted on 10/20/2013 4:52:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yeah, I agree with successful businesses like Chick Fillet and Hobby Lobby. Both close on Sunday so their employees can spend the day with their families.
You work to live, not vice versa.
Fat cat’s wives can buy their cashmere sweaters first thing Monday or Friday morning. Right after they milk the cows ....
I spent decades in retail and I do mean decades as in a career retail person first working in a toy store at age 15 and working my way through until a District Manager of 10 store locations. From going to work the evening of Thanksgiving to either decorate the store(yeah I'm that old) to setting the Black Friday sale to Christmas Eve's where I didn't get off until the last cash register was balanced for the night, but even then I loved every minute of the holiday season.
Now that I am much older, I do loathe the thought of going out for that first of the holiday rush...but for many younger folks it is just that ...part of the holiday.
So what do I make of this campaign? It is just another attempt, another attack on the traditions and values that we as Americans have practiced for decades. It is part of the cultural destruction and psyche of the nation.
I’ll see her today and ask. Thanks.
It’s just that when the narcotic effect of the turkey kicks in and I’m, well—stick a fork in me: I’m done for the day!
Just another step to dilute the true meaning of Christmas...because people see it in a religious way, keep the stores open on Christmas Day for those who who don’t believe in Christ and make the “Christians” work. True Christians will worship Christ and celebrate His birth on that day regardless of attempts to rename the season as “happy holidays” or open the stores and require work on THE celebrated Day.
All for the love of money and hatred for His Son and His followers.
No it was the other way around. The author should have checked to make sure.
This is just speculation, but could it be retailers just got tired of the Black Friday stampede and resulting liabilities for injuries?
I agree, it’s speculation on your side
Fat cats’ wives aren’t the ones standing in line and elbowing through crowds on any holiday rush. That is a decidedly underclass to middle-class phenomenon.
first clue is the use of the phrase “globalist corporations”...
this phrase is used by psuedo republicans who lean towards the HARD left...
the use of this phrase would put you squarely in the middle of the rino pack...
and the way you word your post is highly suggestive of a liberal troll...
add in the fact that you are a newbie, and we just uncovered a liberal psuedo communist troll..
go away
BS
The phrase is used by disgruntled followers of isolationist Pat Buchanan and the little man from Texas who thought he heard a giant sucking sound.
I don't know about Macy. But I do know that Nordstrom opens its doors most days at 10am. Workers begin to arrive at 4am to get things started for the day....
I understand that these holidays its “optional” to work that day but I wonder exactly how “optional” it really is.
Or how long it will be “optional”
Macy’s is a private business and it can do whatever it wants, but I hope they don’t get a single costumer.
My father in law was in a similar position except he started higher up the ladder.
I can recall where even after the last register was emptied and the doors locked, “special” customers would call and he had to go back.
That was really a while back
Work on Thanksgiving Day in a retail store? Sure! Why not? Gotta’ be one of the slowest days of the year (except for preparing for the rush on the following day....).
You people disappoint me. I would NEVER work on Thanksgiving but for too many people that is not an option. Cows milked? My grandma did it one sunday in her church dress-took 2 hours-6 cows. Firemen/cops? It comes with the job b4 you get hired-understood? Don’t forget many get holiday pay which means no shortage of VOLUNTEERS. At the local Lucky’s supermarket ALL manages work the cash registers for 10 hours-non volunteers. They don’t want to pay the workers double time and a half. Makes me want to laugh.
All I’m saying is that there is an element of evil in this robber baron mentality the fat cats put on the rest of us. Last who does the Warren Buffets/Bill Gates types support?
you, sir are indeed correct...
pat buchanan is a moron... :)
That war was already fought and lost by the people.
When I was a kid very few businesses were open on Sundays. The few that were had very limited hours.
Most all stores were closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Even Hospitals, Police and Fire operated with fewer staff.
Now everything is open for business 24/7/365.........
We lost our souls.......
I used to work retail. Not only will the employees be staying much longer after the store closes the night before, but they will be there 3-4 hours before it opens again. This is the Black Friday norm.
You confuse analysis with belief.
My family no longer gets together on Thanksgiving and watch the Uncle gorge himself because many have died and others are far away.
America is not over the river and through the woods it once was. Most Americans seldom journey more than 25 miles from home
Townhall.com desperately needs some editors. Their writers are clearly not up to the task. Earlier this morning, another TH writer I read on FR couldn't grasp the difference between principle and principal. With the aid of technology, we are rapidly devolving toward the Tower of Babel for the English language.
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