Why are more businesses shunning Thanksgiving Day sales?
- 9 years ago
The days of a lethargic post-turkey Thanksgiving may be over for many as retailers seemingly push to get a jump on Black Friday sales earlier every year.
But after a national trend expanding the Christmas shopping season to Thanksgiving Day, and the weeks leading up to it, more businesses are beginning to pull back.
One such example played out recently in Ann Arbor, Mich. - where a renewed protest chastised a local mall for its plan to open on Thanksgiving - a practice national labor groups also berate as unfair.
A Facebook page called "Boycott Black Thursday," has more than 140,000 likes, and a petition circulating online is trying to urge Congress to make Black Friday a national holiday.
But after a national trend expanding the Christmas shopping season to Thanksgiving Day, and the weeks leading up to it, more businesses are beginning to pull back.
One such example played out recently in Ann Arbor, Mich. - where a renewed protest chastised a local mall for its plan to open on Thanksgiving - a practice national labor groups also berate as unfair.
A Facebook page called "Boycott Black Thursday," has more than 140,000 likes, and a petition circulating online is trying to urge Congress to make Black Friday a national holiday.