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Black Friday shoppers
Black Friday shoppers

While some stores are offering a jumpstart on holiday sales by opening up on Thanksgiving Day, others are vowing to keep their doors shut.

Stores that plan to stay closed and allow their staff the day off include  Costco, REI, Nordstrom, Burlington Coat Factory, Apple and Radio Shack.

Retailers that plan to open up after Thanksgiving dinner include Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Kmart, Macy’s, Kohl’s, J.C. Penney and Toys R US.

Will you be among the early shoppers?

 

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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Eric Blauer
12 years ago

Choice. In the end the market determines freedom in most cases. When a community devalues tradition, family and even faith, the underlying motivations for living a life or business that puts other people, employees or community above revenue crumbles. What is sacred other than self if you remove the sacred from day to day life and it’s practices?

Eric Blauer
12 years ago

I bet folks will if they run out of beer, wine or whipping cream for their pumpkin pies.