Sears, Kmart add Thanksgiving shopping hours

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Source: AP

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — Sears and Kmart say they will open on Thanksgiving day again this year with extended hours to draw shoppers.

Sears will open at its earliest time ever — letting shoppers in at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. The retailer decided two years ago to open on Thanksgiving and nudged up its opening time by two hours this year.

Kmart will open its doors at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving and stay open for 42 hours straight, an hour longer than last year.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f0e666e261b2444ab6de4b396b76d3d3/sears-kmart-add-thanksgiving-shopping-hours

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Boycott them. If any entity is "anti family" or committing the "War on Christmas", contrary to what Fox News and talk radio and Breitbart.com will tell you it's not "THE LEFT" - it's corporate greed.

[Le Taz Hot]

1. By about 2:00 pm on Thanksgiving Day

I'm just sitting down after 2 days of cooking. The LAST thing I want to do is shop. I just want to veg., eat and nap after the BIG meal.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. The same clowns who show up to shop that day....

....are the same clowns who won't bother to vote tomorrow.

[Earth_First]

15. ...and be the same one's complaining come Wednesday. nt

[pstokely]

23. many Repuke voters also shop on Thanksgiving

nt

[Ampersand Unicode]

3. I feel for the people who have to work

Holiday hours are terrible for store employees. On the other hand, I personally hate being with my family on any day of the week or year, and would probably jump at the opportunity to work extra hours and pick up some extra peanut wages if it meant not having to deal with the usual bickering and drama.

I just wish more places were open so that people like me who don't want to spend it with "loved ones" (who I don't have -- I have relatives with DNA who hate everyone including themselves, and don't hesitate to show it) don't have to just sit home and be bored. The soup kitchens aren't an all-day thing either if you're really looking to get out.

I'm "anti-family" because my experience has been it's a corrupt institution borne of feudalism and tribal warfare.

Some families are well-ordered and non-aggressive -- they're like Switzerland.

My family, meanwhile, is a merging of Northern Ireland and Somalia.

[deurbano]

7. Sorry to hear that. I spent many years estranged from my nuclear

family, but had other family options. Families can suck, that's for sure. I hope you find a nice Thanksgiving elsewhere.

[PatSeg]

13. I completely understand

I've had a lot of holidays ruined by "family". Working was often a good excuse to not participate.

[Blue_Adept]

4. Thankfully not happening here in MA.

Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Thanksgiving Day is observed on the fourth Thursday in November. Christmas Day is observed on December 25, or if it falls on a Sunday, it is officially celebrated on the following Monday. M.G.L. c. 4, § 7, cl. 18th. Most retail stores may not open on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, and Massachusetts law specifies the limited categories of establishments that may open on those holidays. These include, for example, convenience stores, gas stations, and florists. When Christmas falls on a Sunday, retailers cannot operate on that day unless otherwise exempt. M.G.L. Chapter 136, § 6 (50).

[former9thward]

11. So a retail establishment owned by a Jew can't open on Christmas.

But a retail establishment owned by a Christian can open on a Jewish holiday. Got it. Nice merger of church and state.

[C Moon]

5. That really sucks for those workers. I would never support it!

[turbinetree]

6. Destruction

The CEO of this once iconic brand use to run a hedge fund, and now that he runs two operations he not only has he sold off stores, closed stores, but he feels in his need of greed to be a responsible huckster and make the employees work, while he probably goes on a vacation, the great American way the rich and the poor, this is a classic example of greed and mismanagement

[kysrsoze]

8. They also steal patented tools they are selling and have them cheaply reproduced in China...

they cut the price of their cheaply made knockoff, and eventually drop the original producer of the tool. This has happened numerous times. It's a shitty, shitty company, and they are on the same level as Wal Mart to me.

[4dsc]

9. Please boycott any store that is open on Thanksgiving.

Do your part and boycott these stores.

[hedgehog]

10. I have to admit to a certain ambivalence at this point -

My mother-in-law and her daughter both work full time and do all the Christmas shopping for their families. Thanksgiving isn't a big deal for them since they see their relatives all the time. They kind of chill out on Thanksgiving, then get up as early as possible to go to the stores together and do a marathon. I can see where having an extra day to go shopping would be very attractive to them.

[DebJ]

12. Nice for them, but not for the hundreds of people forced to work who can't be with their families.

[groundloop]

14. And have no choice but to comply because they're slaves to low wages.

[DebJ]

16. Yep...in exchange for giving up time with your family, you get paid crap. n/t

[w0nderer]

18. I don't know about you

but for me it's not the crap i get paid, it's the crap i get handed for crap i get paid

ie...Bullshit to pay ratio is high on one end and low on the other

all jobs should have a BPR rating




i'm ok with a drill sarge calling me a 'cunt' @ $12+ personal and societal satisfaction
i'm ok with a quality assurance person calling me a 'cunt" $35 systems administration and technical satisfaction
i'm not ok with a customer calling me a "cunt" @$8.50 and no satisfaction

[MrNJ]

17. mixed feelings

I only shop online on the Thanksgivings weekend.
I wouldn't be caught dead in the shopping crowds.

It would suck if the employees are forced to work on the T-G

But it's good if it's voluntary and they get to make extra money.

[Reter]

27. It's not, I have a friend who works in Best Buy

He was forced to work. There should be mandatory federal law to pay workers double time on holidays.

[demigoddess]

19. plan to boycott them

I even hate the fact that they are already putting things for Christmas on the shelves in grocery stores.

[ballyhoo]

21. We plan to boycott Christmas.

[SoapBox]

20. I don't understand what's different.

I went to Kmart when they opened early on Thanksgiving for years...they used to have blankets really cheap and I would buy a cart of them for a local doggie rescue group.

[pstokely]

22. forget about "War on Christmas", what about the War on Thanksgiving?

?

[Omaha Steve]

24. Sears lost some respect from me

Still a level above Walmart! I haven't been to a Kmart in years.

[roamer65]

25. I refuse to shop on Thanksgiving or Xmas Day.

The idea of it is just plain stupid.

[customerserviceguy]

26. The last desperate gasps

of a dying set of brands. In ten years from now, neither will exist, except as memories.

[DesertDiamond]

28. Oh. My. Gawd. While other chains have decided to CLOSE on Turkey Day so employees

can be home with their families, these stores are going to make their employees work LONGER hours? I'm never shopping at those stores again.

[ileus]

29. I don't have to boycott them, both suck ass.