I need to get this off my chest...How dare the Retail Industry take over Thanksgiving Day!
It is a clear sign of corporate greed to make employees work on a holiday that is meant for time spent with Family and Friends. I'm single and most of my family is dead or lives too far way to see, but that doesn't mean that I want to work on Thanksgiving Day!
And as for shopping on that day - REALLY!!!
If shoppers stayed home on Gray Thursday, then the stores would just move the sale items to Black Friday where they have been for years. There is NOTHING that can't be bought on Friday, Saturday or any other day of the week during the Holiday Season!
For shoppers to be lead like sheep into thinking that they can only get that special deal on gray Thursday is ludicrous. You are the one controlling the retail stores, not the other way around. Another holiday that get's lost to the gutless souls of the greedy merchants who can not stop their needless campaign to take your money in some new way.
I feel sad for the shoppers who value possessions over family!
As for the employee's of these stores, you too can control when the stores are open. Don't Go To WORK! If all of you said no to Gray Thursday, you would not loose your job, and the stores would not open up. But fear of loosing your job, and fear of not having enough money to survive on, or to be able to buy the things you feel your family needs for the Holiday, will keep you as a slave to the retail bosses.
To be clear, I work a minimum wage job, and yes, I like shopping for the Holidays, but even a man who spends his Thanksgiving Day alone, has enough heart to not add to the insanity of retail greed on this Holiday!
It is a clear sign of corporate greed to make employees work on a holiday that is meant for time spent with Family and Friends. I'm single and most of my family is dead or lives too far way to see, but that doesn't mean that I want to work on Thanksgiving Day!
And as for shopping on that day - REALLY!!!
If shoppers stayed home on Gray Thursday, then the stores would just move the sale items to Black Friday where they have been for years. There is NOTHING that can't be bought on Friday, Saturday or any other day of the week during the Holiday Season!
For shoppers to be lead like sheep into thinking that they can only get that special deal on gray Thursday is ludicrous. You are the one controlling the retail stores, not the other way around. Another holiday that get's lost to the gutless souls of the greedy merchants who can not stop their needless campaign to take your money in some new way.
I feel sad for the shoppers who value possessions over family!
As for the employee's of these stores, you too can control when the stores are open. Don't Go To WORK! If all of you said no to Gray Thursday, you would not loose your job, and the stores would not open up. But fear of loosing your job, and fear of not having enough money to survive on, or to be able to buy the things you feel your family needs for the Holiday, will keep you as a slave to the retail bosses.
To be clear, I work a minimum wage job, and yes, I like shopping for the Holidays, but even a man who spends his Thanksgiving Day alone, has enough heart to not add to the insanity of retail greed on this Holiday!
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