Closed on a Holiday?
I hesitate to say there’s anything good to come from the COVID-19 pandemic…but this might qualify.
Add Target to the list of stores saying, in part due to the coronavirus, they will NOT be open on Thanksgiving for holiday shoppers.
This has been a pet peeve of mine for a while; it’s one thing to have so-called Black Friday starting in the pre-dawn hours, but when it became a Thanksgiving afternoon event before the turkey had even gotten cold, that seemed a bit too far.
Labor groups had protested Thanksgiving store openings for a while, saying it led to stores taking advantage of workers…certainly true. Thanksgiving sales, which are not even on the top 10 busiest days of a retailers’ calendar, have also eaten into Black Friday sales, though Black Friday is still the year’s biggest or second-biggest shopping day.
By the way…can we still call it Black Friday? Forget I said anything.
Target and many others have been open on the holiday for nearly a decade; they, and others, will start the Christmas marketing around Halloween, but will be pushing on line deals to stop the spread of the virus. That’s not good news for brick and mortar stores, or their employees…but actually taking the holiday off is…both from a business standpoint, and from a quality of life standpoint, for us all.
