The tradition of Thanksgiving is broken, or it is renamed "Black Thursday"

The tradition of Thanksgiving is broken, or it is renamed "Black Thursday". Thanksgiving is a holiday unique to the United States and Canada. According to the traditional practice, every year on the fourth week of November...

Thanksgiving tradition is broken or renamed "Black Thursday" Thanksgiving is a holiday unique to the United States and Canada. According to traditional practice, the fourth Thursday of November every year is Thanksgiving in the United States. On this day, they reunite with their families and spend family time together. At the same time, they attribute all the gains in life to God, hence the name "Thanksgiving"; on this day, most businesses in the United States are closed for the holiday. However, in the past two or three years, these traditions have been increasingly broken, and more and more American retailers continue to operate on Thanksgiving Day to meet the needs of shoppers on that day. On Thanksgiving Day this year (November 22), many large retailers in the United States plan to open earlier. Walmart, Toys R Us and Sears plan to open at 8 p.m. until the end of Black Friday hours the next day. This time happens to be when most families have had dinner and can go shopping. Target retail stores will continue to open at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, as they did last year. Brian Hanover, a spokesman for Sears, said: "There are some Americans who are willing to eat less turkey on Thanksgiving and go out to shop. Customers continue to tell us that they want more flexible shopping hours on Black Friday." According to the retailer's market research, on Black Friday after Thanksgiving, some people are not willing to get up early to go to the store to queue up to buy discounted goods. Compared with this, they are more willing to skip dessert on Thanksgiving night and queue up early to buy discounted goods. This means they are more likely to stay up late to shop than get up early to shop. Merchants who saw this business opportunity were naturally unwilling to remain indifferent, so they modified their business hours on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and continued to operate on Thanksgiving, which is traditionally closed. Kmart marketing director Ndy Stein said: "This change has been going on for a few years, and shopping on Thanksgiving Day has become more and more important. So we have extended the opening hours on Thanksgiving Day so that if people find that they are missing something from their dinner at the last minute, they can come to our store to buy it. At the same time, on Black Friday the next day, we start welcoming customers at 6 a.m." But the retailer said that as long as customer demand for shopping on Thanksgiving Day remains high, they will continue to open early on the day. While responding to market demand and making shopping easier for customers, merchants' practices have also been met with protests and boycotts by many store employees and some shoppers. Last year, when some businesses moved their Black Friday opening hours to 9 p.m. the night before, on Thanksgiving Day, they angered employees and some shoppers, who worried that the U.S. would have fewer public holidays. This year, as plans for businesses to open earlier on Thanksgiving were announced, some employee protests were already brewing: Target store employees have started a petition titled "Save Thanksgiving"; Walmart workers said they were preparing to hold protests on Black Friday. Anthony Hardwick, a former Target store employee who organized a similar protest last year, said: "This is ridiculous. People give up Thanksgiving dinner with their families just to buy a $300 flat-screen TV that is on sale?" Some people say that according to this development, "Thanksgiving" will be renamed "Black Thursday."