{"id":1721,"date":"2010-11-22T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2010-11-21T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T01:55:15","slug":"open-thanksgiving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2010\/11\/open-thanksgiving-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thanksgiving Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only person left who admires companies which have the backbone and\/or courage to STAY CLOSED on major holidays?  (And Sundays, too, for that matter?)<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere I look, retailers, restaurants, and just about every other entity looking to pad its balance sheet are now keeping open store hours on what used to be lights-off-and-doors-locked holidays.  A glance through my local Sears store&#8217;s Sunday circular shows the bold print of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><b>OPEN THANKSGIVING DAY<\/b><br \/>\n<i>(where permitted by law)<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and it occurs to me this practice really seems to be getting more and more pervasive.  <\/p>\n<p>For a retailer like Sears, I suppose it&#8217;s understandable.  I feel a bit sorry for the employees, though I imagine they&#8217;re getting &#8220;holiday pay&#8221; or overtime or whatever for dragging themselves out of the house and slogging in to work on Turkey Day.  What boggles me is that there are that many consumers who&#8217;ll shop on Thanksgiving, given the way we&#8217;ve stamped the day after Thanksgiving as, effectively, a Festival of Consumption.  When folks are willing to camp out for prime shopping spots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2010\/11\/its-not-a-bargain\/\">nine days<\/a> ahead of time &#8230; well, it&#8217;s pathetic.<\/p>\n<h3>What About Sundays?<\/h3>\n<p>In my neck of the woods, there are still several businesses who won&#8217;t open up on Sundays, though their profits would almost assuredly rise if they did so.  While I&#8217;m not the religious sort, I truly admire these guys.  By marking Sundays as no-work days, companes like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chick-fil-a.com\/#home\" target=\"_blank\">Chick-Fil-A<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbylobby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hobby Lobby<\/a> are telling me that yes, there IS something they hold more valuable than additional revenue.  I, for one, am wholeheartedly glad to see it.  <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in dire need of a Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich, but it&#8217;s Sunday afternoon &#8230; well, tough s*$t.  Odds are good they&#8217;ll be open Monday.  And they&#8217;ll still be happy to make you a sammich and waffle fries then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only person left who admires companies which have the backbone and\/or courage to STAY CLOSED on major holidays? (And Sundays, too, for that matter?) 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