J.C. Penney, Kohl’s, Sears, Macy’s and Target all open their doors at 8:00 pm this Thursday in what promises to be a new prime time shopping event.
For Best Buy, 8:00 p.m. is not good enough, so their sliding doors open at 6:00 p.m. Many K-mart, Walmart and Old Navy locations will be open all day.
Sure, some 200,000 people have signed a petition to save Thanksgiving, but no petition is going to halt the burning desire to shop for perceived deals.
Are we to surmise from the above Kohl’s commercial that even Bob Dylan, the songwriting genius behind “Forever Young,” is on board with Grey Thursday?
According to Fortune, a dire retail outlook has pushed the Thanksgiving Day shopping trend into unprecedented territory. The moves by retailers have also prompted a fresh wave of outrage by customers who denounced stores for infringing on employees’ family celebrations and further commercializing a holiday rooted in offering gratitude, notes the magazine.
There are traditionalists holding out until Friday. Costco, REI and Nordstrom (all based in Seattle) are closed on Thanksgiving.
