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It looks like the trend of Black Friday moving earlier and earlier and ruining the Thanksgiving holiday for everyone is starting to reverse itself. \u00a0I think it’s mostly due to the shift to online purchasing, which allows the big chains to snag the dollars on Thursday without having to open their stores. \u00a0This saves them labor dollars, but also has the side benefit of happy employees who aren’t torn away from their families to watch hordes of people fight over a television set.<\/p>\n
I won’t have to work Black Friday this year thankfully but you’re not going to find me waiting in line at Walmart or Best Buy either. \u00a0If anything I’ll be comfy in my living room on Amazon, but most likely will wait until Cyber Monday anyway. \u00a07 deaths and 98 injuries on Black Friday? \u00a0I’m going to pass on that excitement, thank you very much.<\/p>\n
For several years now, corporations in their unending search for higher profits, along with their media, have been increasingly forcing the culture of \u201cBlack Friday\u201d shopping on American consumers. We\u2019re all familiar with the custom \u2014 after a restful day of turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and football-watching with family, we\u2019re expected to get up before sunrise and join the masses for a dreadful day of waiting in traffic, standing in lines, and elbowing other shoppers to save a few bucks on some gadgets we could probably do without.<\/em><\/p>\n Some have taken this tradition a little too seriously, going as far as camping out in front of stores to grab up the best deals as soon as workers put them on the shelf and unlock the doors. A few times, this has led to workers getting buried alive and killed, trampled under a sea of rushing feet<\/a>. the site Black Friday Death Count has tallied a total of 7 deaths and 98 injuries<\/a> of workers and shoppers as a result of Black Friday mayhem.<\/em><\/p>\n Stores have even encouraged this behavior and taken it a step further, by starting Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day. While thrifty shoppers line up to buy cheap goods, this means that these store workers are spending the day herding shoppers into lines, rather than enjoying time with their families.<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks to\u00a0labor411.org<\/a>, there are now two lists of importance to Black Friday shoppers\u00a0\u2014 the 20 chain stores that are making workers clock in during the Thanksgiving holiday, and the 24 chain stores that are mercifully closing their doors on Thanksgiving.<\/em><\/p>\n So if you must take part in shopping on the day after Thanksgiving, make sure you\u2019re discerning about which stores get your money. And make sure you same some for Small Business Saturday<\/a>, and help your local economies flourish.<\/em><\/p>\n 1. Crate and Barrel<\/p>\n 2. TJ Maxx<\/p>\n 3. Barnes and Noble<\/p>\n 4. Bed Bath and Beyond<\/p>\n 5. BJ\u2019s<\/p>\n 6. Costco<\/p>\n 7. Dillards<\/p>\n 8. Home Depot<\/p>\n 9. Home Goods<\/p>\n 10. Jo Ann Fabrics<\/p>\n 12. Marshall\u2019s<\/p>\n 13. Nordstrom<\/p>\n 14. P.C. Rochard and Son<\/p>\n 15. Pier One<\/p>\n 16. Publix<\/p>\n 17. Radio Shack<\/p>\n 18. Sur La Table<\/p>\n 19. Sam\u2019s Club<\/p>\n 20. DSW shoes<\/p>\n 21. Gamestop<\/p>\n 22. Staples<\/p>\n 23. Neiman Marcus<\/p>\n 24. Burlington Coat Factory<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. Best Buy<\/p>\n 2. Kohl\u2019s<\/p>\n 3. Walmart<\/p>\n 4. Target<\/p>\n 5. K-mart<\/p>\n 6. JCPenney<\/p>\n 7. Toys R Us<\/p>\n 8. Sears<\/p>\n 9. Macy\u2019s<\/p>\n 10. Michael\u2019s<\/p>\n 11. Big Lots<\/p>\n 12. Shoe Carnival<\/p>\n 13. Old Navy<\/p>\n 14. Family Dollar<\/p>\n 15. Bass Pro Shops<\/p>\n 16. Dollar General<\/p>\n 17. Victoria\u2019s Secret<\/p>\n 18. Office Depot<\/p>\n 19. Office Max<\/p>\n 20. Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It looks like the trend of Black Friday moving earlier and earlier and ruining the Thanksgiving holiday for everyone is starting to reverse itself. \u00a0I think it’s mostly due to the shift to online purchasing, which allows the big chains to snag the dollars on Thursday without having to open their stores. \u00a0This saves them Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}24 chain stores not opening on Thanksgiving:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\u00a011. Lowe\u2019s<\/div>\n20 Chain stores staying open on Thanksgiving:<\/h2>\n