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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday October 29 2018, @02:09PM (2 children)
It ebbs and flows even at the demonic source, USA. Keep a close eye on post-thanksgiving opening times. Used to be Sears, Boston Store, Radio Shack, Toys R Us, Comp USA, GatewayPC, Gander Mountain, they'd all open at like 4pm on Thanksgiving, but now they're either out of business or opening Friday morning, sometimes even at normal time. There's no real point in opening a legacy brick and mortar store if you're not gonna have customers because people just order from Amazon online anyway. They also put a lot of PR effort into showing enormous crowds at opening, but two hours later its a ghost town as you'd expect.
Its been many years since a store opened on thanksgiving evening or at midnight; at least WRT stores my wife actually shops at with her sister. In fact even weird early morning stuff like 2am or 4am is pretty much gone. Sunrise on Friday is the "new" 3pm on Thursday.
Something oft overlooked WRT shopping, especially post-thanksgiving christmas black friday shopping, is its often a very feminine social activity (chix like to shop, news at 11!). Honestly my wife and her sister enjoyed going out at night as a crazy adventure to drink coffee and catch up on their girlie gossip under the clandestine cover of "christmas shopping". Sure technically they're doing some gross hypercapitalist BS but in practice they're doing feminine gossip while sipping coffee and very lightly exercising walking around, and if they buy grannie some collectible figurine or whatever BS because they're together when they see it, eh, its not the worst thing in the world. Retail brick and mortar is collapsing such that fewer people every year have to serve them, and its not really all that much worse than being a cop or fireman or doctor or sysadmin over the holidays anyway, so I can't even feel all that bad for the retail service workers, heck its part of the job they knowingly signed up for..
If the point of black friday is sipping coffee while gossiping like fiends at midnight in a hunting pack of your normally distant female relations, good luck shutting that stuff down with a PR campaign of "marx was right capitalism sux retail workers of the world unite". Its like trying to halt the entire marriage industry because of blood diamond PR campaigns, I'm sure it feels really good and righteous while also being completely and utterly ineffective because its missing the point of why people actually participate, which usually has nothing to do with progressive virtue signalling.
In summary why people complain about shoppers is mostly a failed attack against a straw dog that doesn't exist anyway.
(Score: 2) by OrugTor on Tuesday October 30 2018, @04:26PM (1 child)
I modded you up for writing well.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 30 2018, @08:08PM
Not quite. Try again?
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