Consumerist:
Though many of the big box stores now open for Black Friday at some point on Thanksgiving, some retailers and mall owners have fought back against this trend. For the second year in a row, one of the nation’s largest mall operators has declared that its properties’ doors will remain shut this Thanksgiving.
CBL Properties is a real investment trust that operates more than 60 malls around the country. The company made this same decision last year and believes it was the right thing to do.
I think this is a great idea. We’ll all be madly shopping soon enough. Let Thanksgiving not be one of those days.
Works for me.
It’s sad and pathetic that this is a news item at all.
Great! Capitalism has enough opportunity to dehumanize people.
I was explaining Canadian Thanksgiving to some American friends. Basically family and friends get together, we eat a big frickin’ meal, play board games, take the dog for long walks, and rent a lot of movies.
Sometimes the Crokinole board gets pulled out of the attic or crawlspace early.
That sounds like Thanksgiving here too, why the splainin’?
fuck black friday. it’s all just more crap anyway. time is better spent with loved ones than clawing for some garbage to plug in