Ruining Christmas by being Closed on Christmas

[drjonah]

Thought I would start a thread because I saw a post on facebook complaining that Awful-mart was closed today and now Christmas is RUINED!!!!

[registerrodeo]

If you have to wait until Christmas to go to Wally World, then your Christmas should be ruined. What an idiot

[drjonah]

Sadly, I've predicted that in the next couple years, pretty much everywhere will be open on Christmas day because the SC's will make enough of a stink that their Christmas was RUINED because a store dared to be CLOSED!!!!

[protege]

I'm surprised that everything isn't open NOW

[registerrodeo]

Had to make a 7 11 run..I feel so bad but I needed ginger ale

[wolfie]

With all the stories about ruining someone's Christmas by being out of stock of some seasonal item (or the year's hot toy) an hour before closing on Christmas Eve, it's easy to forget that there are other holidays.

I wonder if any retail worker, on being confronted by a customer who's "WTF? How can you be out of menorah candles?", has the guts to reply "Our supplier shipped far less than we ordered. We thought they'd sell out in one day, but by some miracle it was 8 days before we ran out of stock."

[Slave to the Phone]

Had to make a 7 11 run..I feel so bad but I needed ginger ale

I meant to stop and get beer on the way home last night, but I forgot. If I wasn't expecting people over, I would have done without it. I brought the clerks yummy cookies to make up for it, though.

[shanarocks]

What bugs me about this is the SC's not giving a shit about the poor employees that they are forcing ot work by demanding that the store be open....meaning their christmas is ruined because they aren't home with their familes. It's the "me first" mentality. It pisses me off.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Had to make a 7 11 run..I feel so bad but I needed ginger ale

I almost got sent on a store run to get dessert. I explained my objections to Mom-- namely, that I don't wanna justify corporate decisions to open on Xmas-- and she backed down. I made some cookies (peanut butter chocolate chip) and they were far better than anything store-bought.

[drjonah]

What bugs me about this is the SC's not giving a shit about the poor employees that they are forcing ot work by demanding that the store be open....meaning their christmas is ruined because they aren't home with their familes. It's the "me first" mentality. It pisses me off.

For sh!ts and giggles I watched my CCTV this morning and counted TWENTY cars pull into the parking lot at my store throughout the day Christmas Day. Five of those cars actually pulled into a space and got out and tugged on the door. Not only that but we had ten missed phone calls from people obviously wondering if we were open.

I really will not be surprised if next year we'll be open Christmas Day because heaven forbid the SC's go one day without something being open

[Ironclad Alibi]

I really will not be surprised if next year we'll be open Christmas Day because heaven forbid the SC's go one day without something being open

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[smoorman76]

The gas station I work at was open and just about every third person who came in said something like,"Oh, you're open, thank god, there's nothing out here." I live in a very small town on a very busy highway in the middle of absolute nothing. Somebody told me they hadn't seen any place since [larger town] an hour and a half before, and somebody going the other way said there wasn't anything open after [big city] two hours ago. One guy left me his change as a tip, all eight dollars and some of it, I had a bunch of people try to commiserate with me for having to work (I volunteered), a coworker brought me food, I had no real problems all day.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I have no objections to places being open on Christmas day if a) the employees are volunteers and b) they are being paid oodles. A friend of mine worked at a Texaco Co-op on Christmas day for two reasons; firstly, she got to get away from her kids for a while (her parents looked after them, which meant that the kids got Granny and Grandad time!) and second, she was paid triple just for being there. She told me that there'd be about an hour when it was busy (mainly fathers buying batteries) and the next seven hours were dead. She and her colleagues passed the time playing poker and laughing about being paid to do so. XD

But I don't see why everywhere needs to be open every day. Places ought to be closed more, not less, especially since there's now internet shopping. Back when I was a kid, it wasn't uncommon for places to be closed for three days over Christmas and I don't recall anyone dying of starvation as a result.

[Gizmo]

I did go to a friends for Christmas and apparently friends wife when she got up said "I want cigarettes..." and was not happy to told it would be good fun finding a shop open. (We actually did though - which surprised me!)

[Marmalady]

Back when I was a kid, it wasn't uncommon for places to be closed for three days over Christmas and I don't recall anyone dying of starvation as a result.

I remember that too, and the reason nobody died of starvation was that people used to do this weird thing called 'planning ahead' ; apparently, they used to sit down and work out what they would be needing (and when) and go out and get it (or order it to be delivered) before Christmas Eve.

I know, it's incredible isn't it?