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Originally Posted by OtinG
Before the internet came along, probably about the late 1980s in my location at the time, one of the big malls bucked the tradition of waiting to open up on the "day after" Thanksgiving (Black Friday), and opened on Thanksgiving afternoon around 2pm. And they stayed open for 100 hours straight, which was unheard of in those days for brick and mortar stores. The following year many of the big stores did the same. Within a few years almost all of the stores were doing the same.
As far back as I can remember, and I’m in my mid 60s, stores like Walmart were starting to sell Xmas decorations and supplies as early as Labor Day. It wasn't even close to Halloween yet, and the Santas and other Xmas things were decorating the stores!
It just seems to get worse each year with all the one-upmanship between all the retail stores, especially on the internet these days. By the time we get to Christmas Day it seems like the holiday has been around for a whole quarter of a year. I fully expect to see Freddy Kruger dressed as Santa selling Xmas stuff on TV right after Labor Day. It rather dilutes the whole holiday feeling...
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I've never heard of a mall staying open 24 hours a day, much less multiple days in a row. That's pretty crazy.
When I worked at K-mart in the early 90s, K-mart and Walmart were both closed for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. (Our Walmart wasn't a super center one yet, so I don't know if the super centers also did this.) As I recall, Walmart started things by deciding to stay open on Thanksgiving one year. The next year they stayed open for Easter as well. K-mart followed suit, because they couldn't afford to lose business to Walmart on those days. So from what I saw, you can blame Walmart for that. I'm sure some other major store chain would have done it eventually and forced everyone else to follow, though.
It worked pretty well for employees at Thanksgiving & Black Friday. Everyone got a day off to rest up and relax before the utter madness that was Black Friday morning shopping. It made dealing with all that a lot less stressful.
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Originally Posted by library addict
I don't mind if they keep the sales for more days. But I hate that they don't all publish what actually is on sale and the price in the actual ads.
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Stores did some weird stuff this year. I got a 14TB external drive from Best Buy, but it was in-store pickup only
and not ready until December 8th. Apparently they meant that, as I've yet to receive an email telling me it's ready to pickup. I found that kind of annoying, but didn't want to miss out on the deal. (And of course it ended up on sale for the same price at Amazon the next day, then Newegg over the weekend.)