I used to be one of those people woking on Black Friday. The sales are the samethe next day, and many times they were the same the Wednesday before, so everything is already set up for the Friday opening. It is true that sometimes items are brought in especially for that day, so once they sell out there might no tbe any left the rest of the season. But, hey, there is always something else.
Now that I am on the other side, sometimes I am out shopping on Black Friday and sometimes not. Has nothing to do with it being teh day after thanksgiving, just a matter of if I need/want to go out or not like any other day.
I would never get up extra early to be in a store at the crack of dawn! This trend pisses me off. When I worked for bloomingdale’s and saw that Macy’s and others were going towards early early openings like 7:00 and 8:00am I used to say the day they ask me to come in 7:00am, or earlier to open the store I quit.
Some of the stores where I live like Banana Republic and some others were open Thanksgiving day, and in J.Jill a manager and some sales associates were telling me they were open last Easter. I think that sucks. For me I like it personally, because it is annoying when everything is closed, but for the people who celebrate those holidays and have to work it’s just wrong. It was bad enough when they started opening on New Years—do any of you shop New Years day?