No Black Friday at Walmart?

[anotherguy]

Walgreens and CVS and Rite Aid - drug stores should be the only things open on XMAS Day besides Gas Stations and restaurants. (And by restaurants I don't mean BK or MCd's). I think restaurants should be open because there are a lot of people who don't want to cook. (That and the fact there's the probability of the Christmas Ham or Turkey getting completely burned).

Or the Bumpus's hounds run off with it...  Anybody for Chinese food?

[Dave]

Drug store chains like Walgreen and grocery stores have been open on Thanksgiving for as long as I can remember. Walgreen has also been open Christmas day for years as well. When I worked in grocery stores I worked on Thanksgiving sometimes, which I really didn't mind since I was still single at the time and was able to have dinner with my family later in the day. Some people came in to buy last minute items but others came in and did their regular weekly shopping like it was any other Thursday.

Walgreens and CVS and Rite Aid - drug stores should be the only things open on XMAS Day besides Gas Stations and restaurants. (And by restaurants I don't mean BK or MCd's). I think restaurants should be open because there are a lot of people who don't want to cook. (That and the fact there's the probability of the Christmas Ham or Turkey getting completely burned). As for the drug stores You need somewhere to go to run out and by medicine if one of your Christmas guests gets sick of forgot to bring their medicine.

Walgreens & CVS in my area are only open from 7 or 8am to 5 or 6pm, except for 24 hour locations, which never close on Thanksgiving & Christmas.  As for restaurants; I never see any of the fast food joints open on Christmas.  I've seen few restaurants open on Christmas Day.  I was surprised that Old Counry Buffet wasn't open on Christmas Day, like they were on Thanksgiving last year.  I have seen some McDonalds & Burger King locations open on Thanksgiving, but only open from 7am - 1pm, but as late as 3pm, but no later than 4pm. 

Speedway (one of the big name gas stations in my area) has most locations open 24 hours.  Those that aren't open 24 hours either have reduced hours for the holidays, or open regular hours.  Some locations near me are open from 5am - 11pm everyday.

[JayR]

That and the fact there's the probability of the Christmas Ham or Turkey getting completely burned.

Or the Bumpus's hounds run off with it...  Anybody for Chinese food?

 

Don't you just love the holidays?

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

WAL-MART is having Black Friday, but they are holding on to there advertisment until next week.  They also have exclusive online deals for Black Friday that start at midnight(so does Best Buy).  Any website or invidual found leaking WAL-MART's ad can be sued.  I've seen Back Friday ads for K-Mart, Best Buy, Office Depot and other chain stores and boy do the deals suck this year!

[MarcB]

I shopped at a Black Friday sale once. It was at Bernie's, a Connecticut based Electronics/Appliance/Mattress chain in 2007.  I was in the market for a new digital camera (the Olympus I bought the previous year from The Shop-At-Home Network's, going out of business sale broke mysteriously) and Bernie's had a nice Sony Cybershot  with 7.2 Mega Pixels for $99 for a Black Friday special. They were opening at 8AM so I got there at 730AM. There was a line waiting to get into the store, but it wasn't too long. At 7:45AM a couple managers came out and started asking customer's what they wanted and they were given tickets for the item(s) they wanted. Everyone who was in line and got a ticket got what they wanted. At 8AM they unlocked the doors and everyone went inside. All you had to do is find a sales person and give them your ticket and then they'd go get the item. I was out the door at 8:05AM. In fact I had a longer wait at the traffic light waiting to leave the shopping plaza than I had to wait for a sales person at Bernies. The camera has served me well over the past 2 years (even though it eats batteries like they were candy). I had heard Walmart had the same camera for like $20 cheaper, but I sure as hell wasn't gonna camp out in their parking lot freezing my butt off (especially with me having a sore throat) for 5 hours waiting for the store to open at 5AM. Not getting up early and only having to wait a half hour for the store to open was definately worth paying the extra $20 for the camera. (Not to mention Bernie's was right around the corner from where I was living).

[DToTheJ]

I shopped at a Black Friday sale once. It was at Bernie's, a Connecticut based Electronics/Appliance/Mattress chain in 2007.  I was in the market for a new digital camera... and Bernie's had a nice Sony Cybershot  with 7.2 Mega Pixels for $99 for a Black Friday special... The camera has served me well over the past 2 years (even though it eats batteries like they were candy)...

Here's a tip: When not using the camera, remove the batteries. I have a similar camera model and found out the hard way how fast it burned through batteries. And a clue was when the camera's power conked out when I immediately turned it on. These days, not much problems.

[MarcB]

Here's a tip: When not using the camera, remove the batteries. I have a similar camera model and found out the hard way how fast it burned through batteries. And a clue was when the camera's power conked out when I immediately turned it on. These days, not much problems.

Thanks Diamond Joe for a tip I can use. I will have to send you a dollar in the mail. 

[Bre2223]

So I just joined this site so I could comment on this subject.... Wal-Mart is no longer closed on holidays in honor of the man who was trampled to death in one of their store's up north last year. Not that it will bring that man back but perhaps it will help lessen the strain and keep the same thing from happening again. Also does anyone even know why it's called black Friday?? The sources I have read say it's due to retailers being in "the black" as opposed to being in "the red". Being in black means gain and in red means loss. Also in one area I read about Philadelphia,the police coined it black Friday when it started because of all the car accident's and deaths that occurred..... black=death.

[imhomerjay]

It's about the profits--blank ink.  Nothing to do with car crashes or whatever...the person that made that up was doing some very creative, albeit morbid, storytelling.

[imhomerjay]

Or black ink...darned typos.