{"id":23273,"date":"2015-10-09T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23273"},"modified":"2015-10-09T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:25:50","slug":"retailers-starting-to-avoid-thanksgiving-openings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/retailers-starting-to-avoid-thanksgiving-openings\/","title":{"rendered":"Retailers Starting to Avoid Thanksgiving Openings"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent years the waters of Black Friday were significantly muddied by retailers pushing store openings to Thanksgiving<\/a> Day. The move resulted in both a public and employee backlash who prefer Thanksgiving<\/a> as a time for family and personal time off. Social media campaigns were launched to boycott Thanksgiving<\/a> sales and holiday traditionalists were quick to criticize the money-grab. But retailers insisted they had to do something to combat online retailer who were capturing sales during Thanksgiving<\/a> hours. <\/p>\n

Now it appears offline retailers are starting to cave. More than a week ago troubled retailer Staples announced it would not open on Thanksgiving<\/a>. And today, Game Stop has announced they will skip opening their stores on Thanksgiving<\/a> too. Both retailers claim they prefer to embrace the values that such time is important to employees and their families. <\/p>\n

That’s a crock. <\/p>\n

The truth is that neither Game Stop or Staples can justify the expense of paying employees holiday rates to work hours many shoppers protest. And that’s the cold hard truth. <\/p>\n

But it is a good trend. <\/p>\n

But can anything be done to stop people from shopping Amazon in between the football and the pie? <\/p>\n

Hardly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent years the waters of Black Friday were significantly muddied by retailers pushing store openings to Thanksgiving Day. The move resulted in both a public and employee backlash who prefer Thanksgiving as a time for family and personal time off. Social media campaigns were launched to boycott Thanksgiving sales and holiday traditionalists were quick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,2,112,76,11],"tags":[270,271],"class_list":["post-23273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-friday","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-news","category-christmas-shopping","category-christmas-trends","category-thanksgiving","tag-black-friday","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}