What are your thoughts on ‘Gray Thursday’ Thanksgiving shopping?
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Black Friday shoppers hustle through Lindale Mall, Friday November 26, 2010 gathering their purchases for the holidays. (Becky Malewitz/The Gazette)
Black Friday was so 2011. This year, ‘Grey Thursday’ is all anyone can talk about.
Some of the nation’s largest retailers that literally cannot wait until the day after Thanksgiving to kick off the holiday shopping season will begin Black Friday sales on Thursday, an unprecedented move that is being met with resistance from employees who now have to work on the holiday.
Grey Thursday sales may be an indication that retailers are anxious about shopper turnout this year after last year’s record-low Black Friday turnout. The National Retail Federation projects that holiday spending will only increase 4.1 percent this year, less than last year’s 5.6 percent rise.
What do you think about Sears, Best Buy and Target joining Wal-Mart in opening their doors to shoppers on Thanksgiving evening? Will you be taking advantage of the deals?
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Short answer is no.
I’ve never liked the crowds but when a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death in a Black Friday stampede in 2008, that convinced me. Only a crazy person would shop on Black Friday
I think Thanksgiving is a great holiday serving a great purpose. It is so fitting for families to gather and spend a day focused on the many blessings that have been bestowed on us. We have so much to be thankful for and often we forget to be thankful. Thanksgiving helps us remember. It’s a good thing.
It totally discusses me to see Thanksgiving viewed as the starting gun for the ugly side of Christmas. I don’t like Black Friday. I like even less Gray Thursday. Retailers can do as they wish, but they will not see me in their stores on Thursday or Friday. In fact, I’ve decided that those stores that open on Thursday will not see me again, PERIOD.
What I said about Black Friday goes double triple quadruple for Gray Thursday
I managed to find the web site for OURWalMart and it’s really disturbing to read through the comments from Wal-Mart employees about what Wal-Mart did to one of the few holidays that they know that they are going to get the day off, they know they can plan on having that day for family and friends. And Wal-Mart took it away from them.
I’m getting the impression that Wal-Mart didn’t give these people a whole lot of advance notice and certainly didn’t ask them how they felt about it. So what’s next? Christmas?
Do we have to be shopping all the time. Is money so important.