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Should you shop on Thanksgiving?

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Did you know that Costco doesn’t open on Thanksgiving day? To me, it seems like the right thing to do. Thanksgiving is all about family and spending time with your loved ones.

You can give shopping a break on at least one day of the year. And it’s not as if there aren’t 100’s of other stores that are open. And of course, the biggest shopping day of the year is just one day after that day.

In a hard hitting article on Huffington Post, author Matt Walsh echoes this sentiment by saying that if you shop on Thanksgiving, you are part of the problem.

While I don’t completely agree with this viewpoint, he makes valid points about the consumerist culture that we live in.

Go have a read: Should you shop on Thanksgiving?

Comments

  1. i spent years working black Friday in retail. i have never seen such awful people as those who shopped on that day. I would never shop on a holiday, I agree that those clerks should should be home with family. I don’t shop black friday either. I would have to hurt someone if I was in one of those crowds.

  2. I hate to disappoint you, but guess what? Costco *is* open on Thanksgiving, at least in Boise, ID. I was deeply saddened to see them join the ranks of…other retailers, who need not be named. Low blow, that. :/

  3. In sympathy to those who have to work on Thanksgiving I wouldn’t shop on Thanksgiving. People who work in places like hospitals need to work on Thanksgiving but there is no need to have 4 million retail workers on the job on that day.

  4. Tried to leave this comment yesterday, but apparently it didn’t go through…Costco *is* open on Thanksgiving, at least it is where I live. I was deeply disappointed to find this out, via a flyer from them. This whole Black Every Single Day of the Week thing is getting out of hand!

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