Black Thursday

The last couple of years Black Friday "door buster" sales have been starting earlier and earlier. This year many stores will actually begin the sales on Thursday, and early in the evening! In fact Wal-Mart has announced it will start at 6:00pm Thanksgiving night! Many people have expressed displeasure with Wal-Mart’s decision to kick off Black Friday so early on Thanksgiving day because people want to have the option to participate in the sales, but they don't want to feel rushed to get Thanksgiving dinner over with so they can abandon their family for the deals. I'm pretty sure most of the Wal-Mart employees would like to spend thanksgiving with their family rather than at the register. If you think about it the deals we get aren’t really that great anyway. Usually there are a very limited number of exciting items used for the advertising which get sold to people who have been camping in front of the store for many hours if not days! The rest of the sale items are for outdated items that the store wants to unload to make room for the new stuff you will wish you waited for. Another concern is safety. There have actually been rioting and deaths in recent years at Black Friday events. Personally I feel the standard of living and feeling of desperation has been getting worse of late each year and this year is no exception. The likelihood of violence this year is high in my estimation. How much money would you trade to abandon your family on Thanksgiving Day? Would you put your family and or yourself in a potentially deadly situation in order to get those Black Friday savings? I hope people will do the right thing and stay home with their family all day on Thanksgiving, If we do, Wal-Mart won't see huge profits and will stop encroaching on one of our most sacred family traditions.