Corporate retailers can't just close for Black Friday. But co-ops can.
It’s all over my Facebook newsfeed: some retail stores are bucking the trend and staying closed for Thanksgiving Day, and people—Christians and atheists, conservatives and liberals—are applauding them for it.
They’re right. Retail workers ought to have the day off to be with their loved ones. The rest of us can go a day without shopping, even if it is one of the only days of the year we do any serious cooking anymore. This is a genuinely good thing Costco, T.J.Maxx, Sam’s Club and others are doing.
But it’s a pretty small good thing. The stores will open right back up the next day, massive retail day that it always is. Enjoy your day off, retail workers; see you back at the store tomorrow. Hope you have someone local to eat turkey with, cause you don’t really have time to travel or anything.
