Do you plan on going out on Thanksgiving for shopping?

[lauradis]

Frankly, I think we've had enough threads where people have debated whether or not stores should be open on Thanksgiving. We've heard all the arguments on both sides, and at this point no one is going to change anyone else's minds. Repeating it over and over and over and over is just getting old and boring.

Any chance we can get back to just discussing who is going shopping, and who's not?

But its a disboard tradition we must

Ill start the chant "More turkey less shopping, more turkey less shopping"

 

[mhf]

I won't be shopping outside the house because I will have had wine with our dinner. Online…maybe.

My first job out of school years ago was for the store that does the big parade in NYC: they decided to be open on New Year's Day and we were all "offered" the chance to work. I declined because my college football team was in a bowl game and I wanted to see it. The comments I got from management made it clear that the "offer" to work was more of a command. Oh well. We won the bowl game and I left the store a month later for a better job.

 

[princessgabriella]

I'm from Canada, but they do have a Black Friday sale here (even though we don't even have a holiday). We did get our TV there at Target last year, maybe i'll go check again this year, but nothing too crazy... I'm not a fan of big shopping crowds. Except at Disney.

 

[dsny1mom]

I find it sad some stand on their soapbox condemning others when they are just as guilty. If you even turn on your tv/radio you are contributing to someone working who is not in an essential role. If you don't even do that, then you have every right to preach on

But I will let this thread go back to its regularly scheduled topic now

Please don't take what I said as condemning you personally if you want to shop on Thanksgiving. The problem is societal not individual.

Back on topic: No shopping for me on Thanksgiving Day! Nor Black Friday. Years ago, when the stores would open a few hours early on Friday it was fun to go out before dawn and shop a bit. IMHO it has gotten way out of control. Just the 10 pm news on Black Friday showing, probably normally sane people, fighting over cheap towels is enough to keep me away!

dsny1mom

 

[luvsJack]

Please don't take what I said as condemning you personally if you want to shop on Thanksgiving. The problem is societal not individual.

Back on topic: No shopping for me on Thanksgiving Day! Nor Black Friday. Years ago, when the stores would open a few hours early on Friday it was fun to go out before dawn and shop a bit. IMHO it has gotten way out of control. Just the 10 pm news on Black Friday showing, probably normally sane people, fighting over cheap towels is enough to keep me away!

dsny1mom

You are so right, it has gotten out of control. I remember when Mom, dsis and I first started BF shopping the stors opened at 5 or 6 and you could get good deals. I remember some years there being less than 20 people waiting for the store to open.

I found it funny last year when dd and I went to Aeropostal. The stores were completely stocked at 10 am but they had a huge sale at midnight on Thanksgiving. A lady in line told me that it was a madhouse in there at midnight and the shelves were completely cleared with some folks buying every size of the same shirt! Then they closed for a couple of hours and completely restocked with the same merchandise! She said she would never do the Thanksgiving shopping again because people were acting crazy and yet could have gotten the same stuff at the same price just a few hours later. Another lady said the same thing happened at Old Navy.

 

[nugov2]

Please don't take what I said as condemning you personally if you want to shop on Thanksgiving. The problem is societal not individual.

Back on topic: No shopping for me on Thanksgiving Day! Nor Black Friday. Years ago, when the stores would open a few hours early on Friday it was fun to go out before dawn and shop a bit. IMHO it has gotten way out of control. Just the 10 pm news on Black Friday showing, probably normally sane people, fighting over cheap towels is enough to keep me away!

dsny1mom

No, I didn't and I wasn't saying you specifically on your soapbox either just a general feel of people who are all worked up about retailers and are posting the graphic because I believe in Family I Pledge to not shop all over FB. I feel like it is another case of selective outrage.

I will also add in all the years I have shopped I have never seen a fight or any serious craziness. I actually don't even wait in any really long lines

 

[EPCOTatNight]

No, I didn't and I wasn't saying you specifically on your soapbox either just a general feel of people who are all worked up about retailers and are posting the graphic because I believe in Family I Pledge to not shop all over FB. I feel like it is another case of selective outrage.

I will also add in all the years I have shopped I have never seen a fight or any serious craziness. I actually don't even wait in any really long lines

Selective outrage is the perfect term. It wouldn't be America without it.

 

[lauradis]

No, I didn't and I wasn't saying you specifically on your soapbox either just a general feel of people who are all worked up about retailers and are posting the graphic because I believe in Family I Pledge to not shop all over FB. I feel like it is another case of selective outrage.

I will also add in all the years I have shopped I have never seen a fight or any serious craziness. I actually don't even wait in any really long lines

So I get to stay on my soapbox if I dont
watch tv
go to disney
shopping
travel
buy gas
go out to eat
go to the movies

Did I miss anything? Really I don't do these things On Thanksgiving, Xmas and Easter. I have tried the shopping at a cvs Felt wrong, We did go to the movies Christmas about 3 years ago when our daughter worked there Felt wrong.

So

Sweet guess I can keep chanting "More Turkey, Less Shopping"

 

[Pixiedustaway]

No!! I work retail on the corporate side, but we are closed that day. I'd be pissed if I had to work and won't shop for the same reasons.

 

[nugov2]

So I get to stay on my soapbox if I dont
watch tv
go to disney
shopping
travel
buy gas
go out to eat
go to the movies

Did I miss anything? Really I don't do these things On Thanksgiving, Xmas and Easter. I have tried the shopping at a cvs Felt wrong, We did go to the movies Christmas about 3 years ago when our daughter worked there Felt wrong.

So

Sweet guess I can keep chanting "More Turkey, Less Shopping"

Personally I would add watching tv or listening to the radio to really keep that conscience clean. None of that is necessary(I'll call a small skeleton crew necessary in case a zombie apocalypse breaks out and they can sound the alarm alerting the masses to tune in, but watching football and other trivial things is just not right ) those people could be at home with their families if not for the selfish and greedy masses who plop in front of the tv on a holiday about being with family

 

[Halloweenqueen]

I'll be working both Thanksgiving and Black Friday. I never go out anymore. Online is just too convenient!

 

[Dax]

I will probably be doing some shopping. We are in need of a new TV, so I am checking the deals there. The Walmart deals look great. I also plan to pick up some clothes for ourselves and DD and a few other things we can get good deals on. While I am not thrilled on how early they are opening, I am still spending time with my family, as its something we all do together. I work in an airport, and I have to work Christmas...Just so people can fly home to their families....Just the nature of things now

 

[elleavon]

I won't be shopping on Thanksgiving. Usually, I am working. I have spent many Thanksgivings as a waitress serving other people their Thanksgiving dinners. No biggie, and I got my own family dinner when I got home. Now that I'm a nurse, I spend my Thanksgiving taking care of others' family members instead of my own. Someone has to. And this year, I won't be in my nurse role. I will be appreciating another nurse who comes in on her holiday, to take care of me, while she gives me my chemotherapy.

On the one hand, retail stores don't HAVE to be open like the hospital does. But on the other, I don't think it's too much to ask retail employees to work on a day that can be very lucrative for the store that employs them. I don't mean to be cold, but it's a long day and most people, whatever their jobs, will be off for at least part of it.

I believe in family. But not only on Thanksgiving.

Oh, and to answer the shopping question, I'm gonna snuggle up in my chemo chair, with my iPad on the hospital's wifi, and score me some fabulous online shopping deals.

 

[dawnhaze]

If there was anything I wanted or needed to buy, I'd go shopping. Right now, it doesn't look like that will be the case, so I probably won't. I'm not morally opposed to the concept, since I've worked most holidays since I was 16 anyway.

 

[lauradis]

Personally I would add watching tv or listening to the radio to really keep that conscience clean. None of that is necessary(I'll call a small skeleton crew necessary in case a zombie apocalypse breaks out and they can sound the alarm alerting the masses to tune in, but watching football and other trivial things is just not right ) those people could be at home with their families if not for the selfish and greedy masses who plop in front of the tv on a holiday about being with family

Darn I forgot radio

And no ZAPT team that's just cold man!

Oh well I work turkey day anyways. Hotels never shut down. It would be amusing to see them kick everyone out, for the day.