Maybe one beneficial side effect of all this covid nonsense will be to convince people that they have no earthly need to be out shopping on Thanksgiving day.
It’s not just CoupFlu.
Labor costs too darn much.
Especially on holidays.
Every Sunday, all stores were closed up tight as a drum. Maybe there were a few gas stations and convenience stores open but that was about it. No department stores, no liquor stores, no supermarkets. People spent the day going to church, going to parks, the beach, or just spending their afternoons on their front porches and backyards.
My father would "barbeque" in the backyard on summer Sunday afternoons. Basically he would throw half a bag of briquets on the grill, pour in half a bottle of lighter fluid and the flames would go 15 feet in the air for a while. He would char hamburgers, hot dogs and sausage. Absolutely blackened meat without even a hint of pink in the middle. All this while he was drinking either Old Milwaukee or Black Label beer. Whatever was on sale at the time. And we ate it all. And we were happy.