Enough of this "Black Friday" rubbish!

If you love bargains, there are sales being conducted throughout the year that offer much better savings. These Thanksgiving sales are "discounts" given on jacked-up prices. It's not worth ruining a holiday weekend.
Year after year, the gullible public continues to fall for this ruse.

You're welcome! Spread the message.

Chick-fil-A restaurants are closed on Sundays, and they are doing just fine. More businesses need to do this. Running in constant high gear 24/7/365 isn't healthy. There needs to be a rhythm to life otherwise we're headed for a major crash and burn.

You people in Australia need to put a stop to this. It's a spreading cancer that needs to be removed.

This is what started this whole "open on Thanksgiving Day" nonsense. It goes back to 2013 when Thanksgiving fell on November 28th as it does this year. Macy's was in a panic because that meant fewer "shopping days" until Christmas, and pushed to have its stores open on the holiday. Naturally the other retailers felt the need to follow suit. Since these stores were now open, some restaurants saw this as an opportunity to make some money off people who worked up an appetite after a day of frenzied shopping. One thing led to another. It's the snowball effect that continues to this day. This is how New Year's Day and Easter were destroyed. It was a gradual erosion that people weren't aware of until it was too late.

On a side note, I still can't fathom why Macy's, who has sponsored the Thanksgiving Day Parade for decades, would seek to destroy the one holiday associated with its name.

These retailers can't seem to grasp the concept that if people need an item, they will ultimately purchase it regardless of store hours. There is no need to be open on Thanksgiving Day when the item can be purchased on the day before or the day after.

There are a couple of supermarket chains in my area that recently decided it was now necessary to be open on Thanksgiving Day, a practice NEVER even heard of in the past. I questioned one of them about this and they responded that they "were providing an essential service" for someone who may have "forgotten the whipping cream." In other words they were enabling the procrastinators and those who didn't take the responsibility to make a list and double-check their pantries. In the past, people planned ahead and did their grocery shopping and filled their gas tanks BEFORE the holiday. They seemed to be more cognizant that a holiday (and a major one at that) was coming and that they'd better plan ahead. Today a lot of them seem to be unaware or maybe they just don't care anymore.

Needless to say, both of those supermarket chains lost my family's business not only for Thanksgiving but for the entire month of November. I made sure their corporate offices knew this. All I got was a crocodile tears e-mail response.

I hope they are successful. It's a shame this cancer has spread to France and other countries.