Should stores be open on Thanksgiving?

Despite a group of companies taking a stand this year against what’s becoming a holiday tradition, Black Friday will once again start on Thanksgiving for several of America’s biggest retailers in an attempt to boost holiday sales.

He, along with every other staffer, was at work when the store opened.

Meanwhile shopping centres and stores in the North East are preparing for what they hope will be a bumper day for them as well.

Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX): While it’s not a retailer like the other chains on this list, Starbucks will be opening many of its locations for extended hours to help fuel people’s Black Friday shopping. Also, know what time the store opens.

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Each year, Walmart, Best Buy, and other retailers create a few “doorbuster” deals that are low in supply and high in demand.

With Thanksgiving Day 2015 sales deals online, some people are still wondering what restaurants are open, or stores are available for shopping in the real world? She has been shopping on Black Friday for 19 years.

The Pleasanton Downtown Association, Visit Tri-Valley, the Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce and Hacienda are working with city officials to encourage the community to shop locally Saturday and, in fact, all during the holiday season and throughout the year.

Closing on the biggest sales day of the year is 100% stupid.

Francisco Nava waited outside a Best Buy store in Beaverton with a crowd of friends. Increasingly, they’ve been discounting holiday merchandise earlier in the month.

Black Friday has lost some of its luster. All those factors point to a need for heavy discounting – good for consumers, but not so great for retailers’ profits. Parades held on Thanksgiving concluded with the appearance of Santa Claus to signify that Christmas was coming. Last year, the NRF had forecast 140.1 million consumers would hit stores and e-commerce sites, 4.8 percent more than actually turned out, according to its post-weekend shopping survey.

I have relatives who started shopping on Thansgiving.

In more recent years they ventured out Thursday evening after Thanksgiving dinner as Black Friday continued to encroach into the holiday.

For more details on Amazon’s Black Friday plans, read my full article here.

According to blackfriday.com – yes, there is a website dedicated to Black Friday – the reach of Black Friday is starting much earlier.

While the study found a lot of recycled deals, numerous Black Friday sale items can be found elsewhere for cheaper at any time during the year.

With extended hours – many stores stayed open until midnight Thursday – the day might equal Black Friday’s profit, at best, he said. A key one is fear of the unknown, along with a feeling of “us and them” – with many still seeing online and in-store as completely separate sales channels. Will Black Friday find yet another way to stretch the savings season?

And even though retailers will be offering digital deals this week, you may want to check out their Cyber Monday line-ups before pouncing on a Black Friday sale.