No Shopping on Thanksgiving!

I'm with ya! It's turning Thanksgiving into Thanks-Getting. I'll spend my money next week...LOCALLY.

Christine: Thanksgiving is a day I set aside to spend time with loved ones and enjoy all that I have been blessed with.  Zero chance I will be doing any shopping tomorrow.

Chris, To me there's a bit of a logic breakdown in the theory that staying open more means more dollars.  Everyone's paychecks didn't get larger just because the stores are open some extra hours. There's only so many dollars to spend, so whether I spent them Thanksgiving Day or December 12th, when my dollars are empty, they're empty.  I think it's a rob Peter to pay Paul type event.  Bill

I will not and I also won't shop on Black Friday or Cyber Monday.  It has gotten all too commercial and I refuse to participate in that.  My gifts are either homemade or ca$h.  Not crap that is unnecessary.

I never shop on Thanksgiving anyways. It's time for Turkey, blogging and football....I feel sorry for the employees that are "forced" to work on this holiday.

And what about the stores that "Open at Midnight Thanksgiving Evening!!" Oh great, you gave me the day off, but now I have to be at work at Midnight and work a graveyard shift?

Sad, sad, sad.

To a large number of folks, Thanksgiving is more about football, parades, and gluttony than giving thanks.  Why not add greed, or the more mild money saving opportunity, to the list?  I think it's fine to choose not to shop on Thanksgiving, and it's also fine to enjoy ones holiday in any way one chooses, including shopping. 

It does bring to mind the possibility that having Thanksgiving store hours may not be a great business decision.  There is a matter of holiday premium paid to employees, as well as other overhead that comes with an extra day of operation.  Anyone with a retail brain ought to be able to figure out that starting the shopping season on the day before Thanksgiving will catch all the deal hunters and still allow the operational savings of a Thanksgiving closing.  Of all major retailers, KMart comes to mind as one with a long tradition of being open on Thanksgiving.  Perhaps the others are jealous of their success.  KMart may not be closed on Thanksgiving, but they sure know how to close stores :)

I think the shopping on Thanksgiving is fine.  In fact it has become a tradition for many families.  With that said I DO NOT and will never shop on Thanksgiving.  For me it's family, good food and football.