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Really? Penalizing stores for NOT being opened before Black Friday. Buffalo-Area Mall Threatens To Fine Stores That Don't Open On Thanksgiving An upstate New York shopping mall is threatening to fine retailers about $200 an hour if they fail to open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Walden Galleria, a suburban Buffalo retail complex with more than 200 stores, told store managers in a meeting last week that they must open their doors when the shopping center opens on the holiday, or pay penalties specified in leases, 10 managers told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. Waiting until midnight to open may cost stores $1,200 or more. Struggling to compete with big-box stores and online retailers, shopping malls around the country plan to kick off Black Friday early by opening on Thanksgiving. The malls are trying to keep up with stores like Kmart, Target and Walmart, which have all pushed holiday shopping's start date to turkey day. Well, it is what its all about. | |
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Ah the Walden Gonorrhea. Horrible place, I'd never suggest anyone go there.
But this isn't surprising at all. I'm kind of surprised that this hasn't happened before. | |
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I think the whole "shop now" and "let's be open on Thanksgiving" thing has gotten way out of hand. From a Christian standpoint, the whole objective of the holiday season should be about giving - not shopping. Already the day after Halloween means the stores will have their Christmas crap up. Why the "rush" of shopping? If stores would offer their discounts throughout the year and have real sales more often, there wouldn't be a need to have a Black Friday or a need to move it into Thanksgiving. Besides, who wants to get up early, or leave Thanksgiving meals, to go shopping with hoards of people drunk and dressed in their pajamas to go run through the aisles at their local box store? No thanks! | |
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And folks will definitely be up in there shopping drunk. Let's not even get started on the drama that happens in the parking lots! I used to love Black Friday, but once it started being a pain to find parking, finding merchandise all over the place in stores...clothes thrown everywhere and put in the wrong spots and then waiting in check out lines for 30 minutes to an hour became the norm, I said forget this and opted to sleep in instead. [Edited 11/17/14 12:57pm] I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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YAY Capitalism!!! The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. | |
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As for the topic, it's all about that almighty dollar as always...but really, what's the worse that could happen if the stores opened at midnight? Do they really think folks are going to riot because Yankee Candle and Calendars Unlimited chose to open at midnight instead of 6pm? [Edited 11/17/14 13:06pm] I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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I knew it wasn't Walmart. Hell would freeze over, if they did | |
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its called capitalism. you people vote for this kinda shit every election. i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT... STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE... | |
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KingBAD said: its called capitalism. you people vote for this kinda shit every election. Wait! How do you vote for stores to be opened at unusual times in an election? I know that corp amer has politicians in pocket, but what's that got to do with the holidays? Personally, I see it as the ever shifting if power, it not there yet but its well on its way | |
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When I was a kid, there was NOTHING open on Thanksgiving. Which meant we sat around bored after dinner and watched tv or whatever. But maybe that was a better way to do it. I don't get the black friday thing. If I'm gonna shop, I'll do it online. I don't want to have some annoying mother who claims to love her kids trying to get into a fistfight with me in isle 4 over some stupid toy.
There's nothing Christian about christmas in America these days. | |
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Ain't that the truth...
This post should be put on a Christmas Card. | |
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you vote for the people that have the power to give the power to people like these that run these malls, stores whatever even if you don't vote for them you vote for them who they control. its your two party shell game. no matter which shell you pick the onlywin you get is a well planned robbery in the makin
XxAxX said: "wtf happened anyway? when did black friday turn into a 'thing'?" the answer for that is when they started talkin 'bout "xmass in july" and escalatin yearly. it started when they discovered that people are willin to kill to be the first to get into the stores, lookin like gladiators or a wave of mindless humanity in ten years brass knuckles with be back in.... MERRY XMASS!!! i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT... STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE... | |
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Is this for real?!?!?!? By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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This is how we settle this...Just let every Damn Day in November be "Black Day" sorta like Black History Month....Then let the Day after Thanksgiving be Half-Off every Damn thing that's left-over...Do I deserve to be the Next Black President or what? I am Smart.... | |
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i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT... STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE... | |
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KingBAD said:
you vote for the people that have the power to give the power to people like these that run these malls, stores whatever even if you don't vote for them you vote for them who they control. its your two party shell game. no matter which shell you pick the onlywin you get is a well planned robbery in the makin
XxAxX said: "wtf happened anyway? when did black friday turn into a 'thing'?" the answer for that is when they started talkin 'bout "xmass in july" and escalatin yearly. it started when they discovered that people are willin to kill to be the first to get into the stores, lookin like gladiators or a wave of mindless humanity in ten years brass knuckles with be back in.... MERRY XMASS!!! Well damned if you do, damned if you don't. What's the point? I understand, the percentages are high of people who refuse to go shopping this Thanksgiving, but I sure there will be enough percentage to make it worth the stores while. | |
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guitarslinger44 said: When I was a kid, there was NOTHING open on Thanksgiving. Which meant we sat around bored after dinner and watched tv or whatever. But maybe that was a better way to do it. I don't get the black friday thing. If I'm gonna shop, I'll do it online. I don't want to have some annoying mother who claims to love her kids trying to get into a fistfight with me in isle 4 over some stupid toy.
There's nothing Christian about christmas in America these days. It wasn't that long ago. You forgot to buy anything Wednesday evening, you did without until Friday. Store parking lots had tumbleweeds rolling through them. | |
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the bigger the city, the longer ago it was... i was a kid in the small town of buffalo when it was like that. you better not have forgot somethin you needed on thurs.
BUT!!! this is what i mean when i say that people voted for this shit. how many times, as a kid, do i remember people talkin 'bout "they need to at least have one store open" then it became "one closer" this is a capitalistic society that has no regard for other folks families. "so what if somebody had to work as long as we get what we want when we want it" right now we talkin bout holiday shit and folks can't connect the dots about HOW it came to this. YOU ASKED FOR IT YOU GOT IT (toyota) i am KING BAD!!!
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My question is, Are these workers being compensated? Some are but I suspect many are not. Some people have always worked on holidays but you got paid...double or time & a-half. In one respect this is a buggy vs the car... one is going to take over the other. You wanna get stuck on how things use to be and get mowed under.
The other factor is what KingBad has been saying.. We've elected people to office who have for the last 40 years, have eroded workers right, collective bargining, and the right to organize. Then folks wanna raise hell when companies deprived them of family time and whatnots. If you mention a Union, people talk about they're no good blah, blah, blah. As if the 8hr work day, health insurance, overtime, workers comp, etc, etc, were given for the asking.
I wonder if all workers (net/retail) were paid double for working on Holidays, how many of these stores would open?
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Your money is the casting vote on whether stores are open on Thanksgiving. Just don't shop on Thanksgiving and encourage all your friends and family not to as well. That will stop "black" thursday. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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OK, I saw that Kmart has been open for Thanksgiving for decades, I never knew, we stayed home and watched TV, videos, talked to (yelled at) each other, something. But that all good and fine for some to choose, free country, enterprising and all, but to think that some store owner gets penalized for standing by a tradition seems to be pushing capitalism to the next level. And I am surprised about time and a half, I always understood holiday pay was double time. Glad I avoided retail. | |
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