Wal-Mart to start Black Friday 2012 at 8 PM THANKSGIVING night

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

http://consumerist.com/2012/11/08/wa...-dessert-hour/

Wal-mart, you can go straight to hell.

Let your employees have some time with their families. SERIOUSLY.

It's crap like this that make me glad my primary job isn't retail anymore.

[Amina516]

Ill never understand this. Id rather buy items full price then give Walmart my business on Thanksgiving or Black Friday.

I feel for the employees.

[Bright_Star]

I've NEVER shopped on Black Friday & I'm not about to start now. I used to work at Wal-Mart years ago & had to work Black Fridays. I was a cashier & they had me come in at 5 in the morning & by the time I walked through the front door, there were a ton of people lined up at the registers!!
That Wally World is going to start Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving night shows that they don't care about their associates because if they truly cared then the store wouldn't open up till about 7 in the morning to let their associates spend time with their families.
All they care about is how much green stuff they can roll in. The well being of their work force is the last thing on their minds if they even think of them at all.

[BookstoreEscapee]

This has been the theme of the Retail comic strip this week. Grumbel's Department Store is opening at 9 on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two days of the year that B&N is closed; even though I don't work in the store anymore, I will still be very annoyed if they ever start doing this Thanksgiving day crap. (I don't see them ever running the warehouse even if the store is open on a holiday; we're closed on other holidays that the stores aren't, like Memorial Day, Labor Day, Good Friday, etc.)

[PepperElf]

there's only one way to stop it... no one show up.

but we know that's not going to happen, so.... at this point I can't entirely blame the company on this. Cos as much as we may say the company doesn't care about the employees - neither do the customers, not if they're packed like sardines waiting for the store to open at 8PM.

[LillFilly]

there's only one way to stop it... no one show up.

but we know that's not going to happen, .

Yeah, that's like when people gripe about the store being open on a sunday, how blasphemous! Well then, what are they doing shopping there!?

[Rodimal]

Its stupid, but the way of business these days. You really think WalMart is the only company doing this? Well, they are not. Target, Freddy's, all the other big retailers do shit like this. It sucks I agree, but thats how it works these days.

out

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Don't blame the stores for opening on Thanksgiving night. Blame the people who'll sell out that holiday for a $2 coffee maker.

The swamp opens at 9 this year Thanksgiving night. I will start work at 3 that afternoon. Thanksgiving dinner probably doesn't need to be postponed; I can just eat and go right to work. Also my sleep schedule won't get knocked out of whack since I get out of work at 1 in the morning then.

Putting away all the freight that's been pouring in has been a bitch. I wish I was dead.

[Food Lady]

We're opening at 9:00 Thanksgiving night, in order to compete with other businesses, since apparently people will spend most of the money at the first store they visit. It actually said those words on a poster by the timeclock. So tell me, corporate, how is this even valid when the competition opens at 8:00? Last year we did 11-hour shifts, which about killed me--I had anxiety-produced digestion issues for 3 days--and this year we have to do 13 hours. The only thing I'm really satisfied with is not having to do cafe this year. I'll be on salesfloor.

Irv, I wish I had your schedule. I work 10pm to 11am.

[customersruinmylife]

I will never understand the mentality of this.

Surely at 8pm on Thanksgiving night, most people are stuffed with food, sitting on their couches and enjoying a few drinks. Who in their right mind thinks "This would be a great time to go to Wal-Mart!"

Thankfully in the UK we don't have a Black Friday in stores (the pub world has one in December) but if we did there is no way in hell I would go for one, no matter how good the bargain was.

[Flyndaran]

I will never understand the mentality of this.

Surely at 8pm on Thanksgiving night, most people are stuffed with food, sitting on their couches and enjoying a few drinks. Who in their right mind thinks "This would be a great time to go to Wal-Mart!"
....

Not everyone celebrates Gluttony-mas. As atheists, my family always went to a movie on Christmas, for example.
If everyone thought as you do, then I would want to go as it wouldn't be crowded.

Also, hello ev'rybody. Long time lurker, first time poster.

[Dracalous]

Why is this considered news? This is the third year we've been doing this. And sales only start at 8. The store stays open.

[Arcus]

Out of respect for my fellow retail workers, I refuse to go shopping on Thanksgiving. I even got my family to do the same. No deal is good enough to force someone else to give up their family time.

[crazylegs]

Out of respect for my fellow retail workers, I refuse to go shopping on Thanksgiving. I even got my family to do the same. No deal is good enough to force someone else to give up their family time.

Unless it's an absolute emergency I don't shop on Bank Holidays & I utterly refuse to shop on Boxing Day (26th December).

I remember my parents having to stock up with days worth of food because most shops were shut between Christmas & New Years days, I can go two days without shopping.

[AccountingDrone]

Wonder what it would take to get every retail worker scheduled for Black Friday to refuse to work.

Probably the government making it illegal to open retail on black friday