Omaha Steve (43,379 posts)
Four Chain Stores Will Close On Thanksgiving Day To Let Workers Spend Time With Family
Source: Think Progress
BY BRYCE COVERT
Four major chain stores — Dillard’s, Burlington, REI, American Girl — confirmed to ThinkProgress on Thursday that they will stay closed on Thanksgiving Day as other stores begin to announce they’ll begin Black Friday a day early.
In explaining its decision, a spokesperson for Dillard’s told ThinkProgress, “We choose to remain closed on Thanksgiving in longstanding tradition of honoring of our customers’ and associates’ time with family.†The other three didn’t elaborate on the reasons for staying closed.
By contrast, last week Macy’s was the first retailer to announce that it would be open on Thanksgiving Day, starting at 6 p.m. That’s the second year in a row it has opened on the federal holiday itself, rather than at midnight as it had in 2012. Walmart also told ThinkProgress that nearly 1 million workers will have to report to work on Thanksgiving as it will be open all day long. More are likely to make the same announcement, as last year Kmart, Target, Toys R Us, Gap, Best Buy, and a handful of others decided to follow Macy’s lead and begin Black Friday on Thursday.
While the stores that open say employees are happy to volunteer and get extra holiday pay, that may not be the whole story for everyone. The United States is the only developed country that doesn’t guarantee that workers can take paid holidays. That ends up meaning nearly a quarter of private sector employees don’t get them, including 45 percent of service sector workers. On top of that, many retail workers struggle with erratic scheduling practices that leave them without enough hours to live off of, so they may be desperate to get the extra shifts. There were also reports last year of Kmart workers who were denied their requests to take the day off.
FULL story at link.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014926270The DUmmies spend the whole year yelling that corporations are evil, money grubbing organizations, and then they're shocked every year when some of them want to stay open for a holiday that most of them don't like anyway.
If the whole world WAS closed, like they swear they want, they'd suspect that it was fundies who were behind it all, and they'd want their stores open again to preserve their sanity.
In other words, you can't win.
SheilaT (16,037 posts)
3. I don't care what stores are open that day, because I will
not be shopping.
I'm sure they'll need to figure that in.
Omaha Steve (43,379 posts)
9. I will probably gets some boos for this
I will work Thanksgiving Day and get double time and 1/2 for it. I will observer the day after (Black Friday) on that day. That means the last day at work before I retire (Saturday the 29th of Nov. is my last work day) I will get double time and 1/2 because Black Friday falls on my regular day off.
Cavers will say I'm bragging. Actually, this caver is amazed you've had an entire career working on the clock, but then again you'd eat a pile of union shit before you'd eat an ounce of non-union steak.Most of you know I always try to promote these benefits for ALL workers. I've been doing it on the DU for almost 10 years. And look what you have to show for it.
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mopinko (42,502 posts)
19. the truly stupid thing is that they are chasing the same amount of dollars.
there wont be any extra money in consumers pockets because these dopes are out fishing for it for one more day.
they should look up the word "finite" and realize all they are doing is increasing their costs chasing a finite amount of money.
That is the dumbest thing I've heard all day, you idiot.
