Big Lots (a store in Southern California) is opened Thanksgiving Day from 7am-midnight.

[C Moon]

...and they celebrate it with smiling, dance filled tv ad...

This is so messed up:
When I was growing up, companies respected major holidays, so people could celebrate the holiday.
I worked Thanksgiving at Baskin Robins as a kid, but was let out by 4 or 5pm.
Now all these companies are all competing with each other by opening earlier and earlier.

Our country sucks.

[NYC_SKP]

1. The workers have to work so they can buy more crap over at the Walmart the next day.

And the Walmart workers have to do the same so that they can buy more shit at Hobby Lobby or wherever.

Everyone is convinced that they MUST BUY MORE SHIT!!!

Every year, it's the crack cocaine of the masses, MORE SHIT!

And it distracts us, and it keeps us poor and at the mercy of the people who keep making shit.

[C Moon]

2. +1

[Hoyt]

3. I'm no fan of corporations, but if people didn't want to go on TG, stores wouldn't be open.

Sometimes we blame stuff on the wrong entities or people.

[C Moon]

4. I understand that.

[RB TexLa]

5. Thanksgiving is not the holiday event it used to be

I don't think people care so much about missing it.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. The American people endorsed the likes of Koch, Walker, Scott and Kasich three weeks ago

This is their world now. Work for peanuts, make money for the man, and die. No holidays or family anymore.

[C Moon]

9. You put it in the words I was looking for...and sorry about the Dolphins tonight.

Great game, though!
Great QB you all have!
There are so many awesome QB's in the NFL right now.

[WillowTree]

7. Blame the people who shop on holidays. If they didn't, the stores wouldn't be open.

[czarjak]

8. Nothing says thanks like...

"Get your ass to work and make me more money, nave." Praise the Lord.

[Kablooie]

10. Since Black Friday is Thanksgiving day everyone will be open.

and with increased staff to help with all the customers that forego their thanksgiving dinner in order to save the price of a nice thanksgiving dinner.

[MADem]

11. People thought television "ruined" Thanksgiving way back in the dark ages.

And football! Football "ruins" Thanksgiving, too. Why are those people cheering in the stands instead of sitting at home in Norman Rockwell poses eating turkey? And what about those football players? Why are they trying to kill people instead of passing the stuffing in their homes?

And what about that Macy's parade, full of sponsored balloons that could kill you if you were standing on the sidewalk and someone let go of the rope? Aren't they all corporate ads, after all?

No one is "giving thanks." They are eating a massive midweek meal if they're lucky or want to bother with it, they're shopping like crazy on a day when they'd otherwise be working, they're watching/betting on football...but they aren't "giving thanks."

It's an eating-shopping-sports holiday. That's what people want. Why fight it? Do your own thing on the day off, play it the way that makes YOU happy, and let other people do what they want.

[SoCalDem]

12. Blue Laws may turn out to be not as bad as we all thought they were

In my smallish home town, EVERYTHING closed up no later than 5:30.. A few grocery stores stayed open until 7 PM..The banks closed at 3 PM..and NOTHING was open on Sundays or holidays (except for a few gas stations)

We all managed to stay fed & clothed, and since this was well before discount stores & malls, those (now) menial sales jobs were often family-supporting jobs.

But, we did not have every nook and cranny of every home filled with plastic crap & gadgets.