re: What's your opinion of stores being open on Thanksgiving?

Never worked in a store but worked at a casino in college and now in a plant so always had to possibly work holidays. Its not that big of a deal. You know when you start working at the place that they are open on holidays. And I get 2.5x pay on holidays now so that helps

Well.... The same could also be said for hospital employees and police and firefighters and prison employees. They are always open for business, but you don't hear them going on talk shows whining about it. If the Mall employees don't want to work on Thanksgiving, then they need to get an office job.

Both sides are partially right. The stores do have every right to open and zero sum, lowest common denominator principles being what they are, once some started opening it was just a matter of time that most others would follow. Their fiscal well being, if not outright fiscal survival is at stake.

At the same time I do think it's pretty trashy that a lot of people think the best way to spend these holidays is traipsing through malls and such. But that is just the continuation of a trend that has seen the winter holidays in particular (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years) become more about buying stuff than about what they were originally about.

I feel like the OP was referring to a simpler time. Our idea of what we "need" has gotten ridiculous. You don't need for the stores to be open. I very much doubt that 50 years ago, anything was open on T-giving (aside from hospitals and such). 20 years ago we got along fine without a cell phone. Now they are attached to us. I think it's funny how we think we need shite that we really don't - like for the mall to be open on T-giving.

I personally think nonessential personnel should be off.

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Personally I think it is disgusting that other individuals can't be with their families on the holiday.

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Weird how nobody have a damn about people working on the holidays before (cops, EMTs, plant operators, etc) but let a few retail workers have to show up for work and the whole country goes to shite over it.

Movie theater employees, some restaurant workers, grocery store personnel, plant workers, airline employees, hotel workers, etc etc have all worked holidays and no one gave a shite. No one still gives a shite about them, but God forbid walmart employees have to work Thanksgiving.

It's just a day BTW that someone just named Thanksgiving.If you really want to spend quality time with the family, do it the Sunday before or on Wednesday or the weekend after.