Putting family first
How refreshing and heartwarming to hear the ads for Fleet Farm regarding Black Friday. Fleet Farm’s emphasis for Thanksgiving Day was its staff to be home with their family. It wasn’t about the almighty dollar. It was about family, the core of this great and free country. Thank you to those who made this decision.
Joanne Dufour
Nisswa
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Add commentJoanne, stick your ad in your turkey.
Amazing how we just had a battle for equality for same sex marriage, where everyone agrees that the US is not homogenous and not everyone follows the same way of life; but here people are now telling us the everyone in the US has to celebrate a holiday the same way. Get a life.
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...it's rarely the choice of the people who work retail to work Thanksgiving day and into the wee hours of the morning the next morning. With all due respect, you are speaking from ignorance regarding what retail workers have "chosen".
But then....Fleet Farm opens
But then....Fleet Farm opens "Toy Avenue" in October, so they've already had their big sales day. They don't need Black Friday.
I, myself, boycott Black Friday altogether. I refuse to stand in line and fight crowds of nasty people for some item I can get for the same price next week, if I'm a good shopper. There are some professions, of course, that require employees to work on holidays (health care, law enforcement, gas stations, travel industry...), but retail really is in a position to allow their employees a full 24 hours off for a major holiday. But we've made our own monster. If consumers would not show up for a 6 am opening to get the door busters, then retailers wouldn't have moved it to 3 am. And if people wouldn't camp out for the 3 am openings, then retailers wouldn't have moved it to midnight. They all want the customer in their store first (because your first store is where you leave the most money). So when consumers stop buying into opening earlier and earlier, then retailers will stop opening earlier and earlier.