Post by meshaliuknits on Sept 30, 2014 11:34:49 GMT -5
No thank you.
I will stick to running into Lucky's running around like a madman for whatever ingredient I've forgotten for the sweet potato casserole. <- Thing that happens every year
The Malls will force you to do this or exercise their rights to terminate your lease.
Yeah, I can't blame the stores entirely for this bullshit. Americans have shown retailers that they have an appetite for it, so the retailers are giving those people what they want. If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at the assholes who actually shop these ridiculous hours/days.
I just want some food, somewhere open on Thanksgiving. I don't like typical Thanksgiving food so we need to stop somewhere after dinner so I can actually eat something.
Post by cattledogkisses on Sept 30, 2014 11:39:55 GMT -5
When and why did Black Friday morph into such an utterly ridiculous "thing?" I don't remember people trampling each other to death to snag mass-produced crap at 2am when I was younger.
Post by iammalcolmx on Sept 30, 2014 11:42:54 GMT -5
My friend owns a couple stores at Lenox ( Mall here in Atlanta) this is the picture he took on Thanksgiving Evening. The mall will pull your lease if you don't open. He would have accepted the fine.
I just want some food, somewhere open on Thanksgiving. I don't like typical Thanksgiving food so we need to stop somewhere after dinner so I can actually eat something.
So why not bring whatever you want to eat in a cooler, and eat that?
Actually, I'll go a step farther and say, you're an adult, you should be able to handle this without requiring someone (i.e. a fast food business) to be open to cater to your needs. You don't *need* to stop anywhere.
When and why did Black Friday morph into such an utterly ridiculous "thing?" I don't remember people trampling each other to death to snag mass-produced crap at 2am when I was younger.
I think the proliferation of online shopping is the main contributor to this. I mean, Black Friday has always been ridiculous, but since brick & mortar retailers have been losing gobs of shoppers to online shopping, they've resorted to more desperate/outrageous stunts to lure people to their stores. I just never stop being amazed what people will do to save a few bucks. Retailers are all
and people do it so they can get 23403826398 Blurays for $40.
When and why did Black Friday morph into such an utterly ridiculous "thing?" I don't remember people trampling each other to death to snag mass-produced crap at 2am when I was younger.
When people decided they HAD to get That Thing because they were entitled to it even though they can't afford it and almost assuredly don't need it.
I hate the escalation of consumerism around the holidays.
Post by andrealynn on Sept 30, 2014 11:47:32 GMT -5
Anecdote time, but here's what I noticed last year- there are people for whom sitting in line for Black Friday is part of their Thanksgiving traditions. Ok, fine, whatever. It isn't my thing, but I won't grudge them that.
That said, they are going in the store whenever it opens. So, the stores served the same people they would have otherwise, it was just more spread out over a longer period of time. It didn't add anything to the register totals, but probably ended up costing the store more in terms of labor and overhead.
Post by dixienormous on Sept 30, 2014 11:55:40 GMT -5
What happened to eating a giant meal and spending time with people you care about? I don't leave the house on Thanksgiving and I certainly don't on Black Friday. I spent too many years in retail for that bullshit.
When and why did Black Friday morph into such an utterly ridiculous "thing?" I don't remember people trampling each other to death to snag mass-produced crap at 2am when I was younger.
When people decided they HAD to get That Thing because they were entitled to it even though they can't afford it and almost assuredly don't need it.
I hate the escalation of consumerism around the holidays.
Right. We're all standing in line for the fucking iPhone 8.
I'm trying hard not to take this comment personally and fucking failing. Because yeah, I totally feel entitled to get a good price on the one fucking thing my damned kid wants for Christmas in a year where I've have to tell him no so mutherfucking often that it's exhausting.
He wants an ipod touch. Not even a new one. Just anyone and if that means I need to dip into fucking walmart at 6pm on Thanksgiving, guess the fuck what?
Just like I walked my happy ass into Game Stop on Thanksgiving night (but it might have been early Black Friday) so I could buy him a $50 used wii.
Also, the year my FIL died, three weeks before Thanksgiving, when my husband ate up all of his time off and the idea of sitting at a thanksgiving table hurt my damned feelings, I was beyond grateful that Cracker Barrel was open.
I think I've also spoke of how working on Thanksgiving and other holidays has put Christmas presents in my kids' stockings as well.
So basically, I give no fucks on this topic. It's just a new non-religious method of pretending the world used to be a better fucking place before such and such people came and ruined it with their [insert judgeworthy ideals here]
Post by cattledogkisses on Sept 30, 2014 11:57:11 GMT -5
My sister works retail and we had to have Thanksgiving dinner early last year because she had to work Thanksgiving evening overnight through the morning. I'm wondering if we'll get to see her at all this year. If you refuse to work those shifts, they'll just fire you.
I just want some food, somewhere open on Thanksgiving. I don't like typical Thanksgiving food so we need to stop somewhere after dinner so I can actually eat something.
So why not bring whatever you want to eat in a cooler, and eat that?
Actually, I'll go a step farther and say, you're an adult, you should be able to handle this without requiring someone (i.e. a fast food business) to be open to cater to your needs. You don't *need* to stop anywhere.
This reminds me of how a lot of local mom-and-pop restaurants are open on Thanksgiving or still have workers in their (closed) restaurants that day prepping Thanksgiving meal orders for delivery. The ILs were telling me this is especially big business for some restaurants in their neighborhood where a lot of elderly folks who live on their own but aren't capable of making big dinners live.