{"id":2286,"date":"2015-11-19T21:05:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2015-11-19T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T05:05:55","slug":"black-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/black-friday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep it Black FRIDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Katrina Penaflor \r\nManaging Editor<\/pre>\n
I\u2019ll start by saying I have nothing against Black Friday shopping. <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t see anything wrong with people crowding into busy stores to find a good deal on electronics, or clothes, or whatever they\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n
Black Friday shopping is great, as long as it stays black Friday, with the emphasis on Friday, as in the day that comes after Thursday.<\/p>\n
My problem comes in with how, over recent years, the shopping day has crept its way up to Thursday.<\/p>\n
This trend of black Friday shopping starting early has become extremely popular in the retail market, and although there are plenty of stores who are against Thanksgiving as a shopping day, like Nordstrom, H&M, and Costco, there are plenty of places that still support it.<\/p>\n
I see Thanksgiving as a day to be grateful, a time to spend with friends and family enjoying a short reprieve from our hectic day-to-day lives, all while enjoying some delicious food.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t see it as a day to leave your regular festivities and shop endlessly for discounted clothes, or, to take the viewpoint of many store\u2019s employees, have to come in to work.<\/p>\n
Last year I found myself in that situation. <\/p>\n
While holding a retail job, I was scheduled to come in at 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day to help deal with the hordes of enthusiastic shoppers. I had to leave my Thanksgiving dinner with family to go to work at a place that I felt had no real need to be open on a holiday.<\/p>\n
Yes, there are plenty of places that need to keep their doors open on Thanksgiving, I completely understand that, but I don\u2019t see retail stores as any of those.<\/p>\n
The shopping, in my opinion, can wait.<\/p>\n
I always thought that was part of the fun anyway. At least for me it was. I would enjoy Thanksgiving dinner then wake up early the following day and go to stores that normally wouldn\u2019t be open at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n
I wish more stores like Costco would take into consideration how staying open on a holiday can affect their employees. <\/p>\n
Sure there are plenty of people who chose to leave the house to shop that day, but think about the employees who get an eight hour shift from 4 p.m. to midnight.<\/p>\n
If less people were enthusiastic about shopping Thanksgiving day, the majority of the stores would have smaller sales \u2014 which could potentially lead to them keeping their doors closed on a holiday in the future.<\/p>\n
Black Friday shopping isn\u2019t the problem here. It is black Thursday shopping that I believe has become the bigger issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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