Are most stores closet on thanksgiving day? Like Walmart, JcPenny and the malls?
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Most everything is closed, including restaurants. I was just at a Wal Mart Supercenter and the cashier told me she has to work on Thanksgiving, so they will be open.
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So Sorry!!!! Due to the Holiday today Thanksgiving All Stores,Shops ect.... Are CLOSED I guess you will have to Stay here w/me. And first thing in the morning Bright/Early I will see to it you get your part/parts and Be on your way SAFELY To your Destination you call HOME. Yours truly Women/Lady in BLACK w/my shades LOL
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You could shop online.  Alot of stores offer the discounts on Thanksgiving day if you shop online.
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Wal-mart, target, K-mart, etc. These are budget friendly stores. If u are looking for name brand clothes mostly all stores like the Gap, Victoria Secret, and etc. are offering after Christmas bargains for those that choose to wait until after Christmas to shop for those they couldn't before Christmas. Thanks for you the answer you gave me it helped.
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One theory is that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season. When this would be recorded in the financial records, common accounting practices use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink would show positive amounts. Black Friday is the beginning of the period where they would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black).\n\nEarliest Citation, speaking to the Friday after Thanksgiving:\n\nA BLACK FRIDAY.\nThere have been many Black Fridays in recent history. Most of them have been days of financial panic. There has been none of blacker foreboding than last Friday. And the blackness is not loss or fear of loss in stocks and bonds.\nNew York Times (1857-Current file).\nNew York, N.Y.: Dec 3, 1922. pg. 38, 1 pgs\nISSN/ISBN 03624331\n\nAnother theory comes from the fact that shopping experience on this day can be extremely stressful. The term is used as a comparison to the extremely stressful and chaotic experience of Black Thursday or other black days. According to The Word Spy:\n\nEarliest Citation:\nChristmas decorations around Tampa Bay started going up in late October, and business has been brisk since then. And while Friday--known as Black Friday for the legendary hordes--will be the biggest shopping day for many area stores, others ring up the greatest sales the Saturday before Christmas.\n—Marilyn Marks, "Retailers expect good sales this Christmas," St. Petersburg Times, November 27, 1986\n\nEmployees of retail stores have for years referred to Black Friday in a satirical way, to note the extremely stressful and hectic nature of the day. Heavy traffic and customer demands added to the long hours make it a difficult day.
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Walmart and Goodwill. Really, I find some very good buys at Goodwill. Rich people don't wear out their clothes and I can get them for a fraction of the cost.
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Wall Mart, Home Depot, Menards, Sears....
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For shopping: walmart, target, costco, macys, bloomingdales, ebay, ae, bananarepublic.
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It's Thanksgiving....... we empty a pumpkin and wear IT. Bananas are reserved for Arbor day when we are swinging from the trees. *wink*
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Who buys paint on Thanksgiving :) ! But if you really need it        K Mart is open on Thanksgiving.
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kmart has a pre thanksgiving sale\nbuy one kiss get a hug for free
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I am in retail and I also for the first time went to a black friday last year. We got up at 5 got to the store at 6 the line was across the street. Look if you wanna get there early get there at 2-3 am I know it sounds stupid but believe me you will see people there especially if they have door busters. good luck I work tomorrow at 5am because we open at 6. \n\n\nhope its worth it..
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There are bargains out there, good ones. and there is the novelty of going shopping at 5am. I work nights, it was so cool to drop in at the store and buy some Christmas stuff. This was a couple weeks ago, not on Black Friday, and the store was virtually empty. \nBut people do go crazy. I went to our local Wal-mart on black friday last year, early, and customers were already lined up for the layaway halfway across the store, down the main cross -isle. The customers  were not letting people go through the line to get to the departments behind it. I finally told one person that obviously, I did not have any layaway, and just wanted through. He told me I should have shopped some other timeand was grinning a smirky face at me, and his whatever she was wife? was standing next to him, smirking too. The next person in line let me through. I'm surprised the store was letting people block the isles, that is against fire code. Oh, well, it was all powerful Wal-mart, I guess they do not have to follow any rules.\nHave a safe holiday shopping season, and when you are standing in the layaway line, and you see me coming, please let me through! I do not do layaway! LOL.
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Make sure you buy the newspaper on Thanksgiving day (Thursday) and some suggest that you should even buy the newspaper on Friday too. Most of the hottest items will be in the circulars distributed on Thursday, but some stores will have additional circulars distributed on Friday too. You can also start viewing those ads online on Thursday too, but you would have to go to each store's website.
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during christmas you'll get better deals cuz the stores are trying to get rid of everything. during thanksgiving is when they first start doing sales, but during xmas is when the sales start to end
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I stock up on gifts year round.. whenever I see a good deal on something I know someone would like.  But I don't think stores should start decorating till the first of November.
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BLACK FRIDAY (SHOPPING) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_Sale\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nBlack Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. Most retailers will open very early and usually provide massive discounts on their products.\n\nAlthough Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the highest sales volume. That is usually either Christmas Eve or the last Saturday before Christmas.\n\nOrigin\n\nThe first use of this term to describe the day after Thanksgiving is not exactly known. There are two popular theories as to its origin.\n\nAccounting practice\n\nOne theory is that stores traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season. When this would be recorded in the financial records, common accounting practices use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink would show positive amounts. Black Friday is the beginning of the period where they would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black).\n\nStress from large crowds\n\nAnother theory comes from the fact that shopping experience on this day can be extremely stressful. The term is used as a comparison to the extremely stressful and chaotic experience of Black Thursday or other black days. According to The Word Spy:\n\nEarliest Citation:\nChristmas decorations around Tampa Bay started going up in late October, and business has been brisk since then. And while Friday--known as Black Friday for the legendary hordes--will be the biggest shopping day for many area stores, others ring up the greatest sales the Saturday before Christmas.\n—Marilyn Marks, "Retailers expect good sales this Christmas," St. Petersburg Times, November 27, 1986\n\nThere exists an earlier reference, speaking to the Friday after Thanksgiving:\n\nA BLACK FRIDAY.\nThere have been many Black Fridays in recent history. Most of them have been days of financial panic. There has been none of blacker foreboding than last Friday. And the blackness is not loss or fear of loss in stocks and bonds.\nNew York Times (1857-Current file).\nNew York, N.Y.: Dec 3, 1922. pg. 38, 1 pgs\nISSN/ISBN 03624331\n\nEmployees of retail stores have for years referred to Black Friday in a satirical way, to note the extremely stressful and hectic nature of the day. Heavy traffic and customer demands added to the long hours make it a difficult day.\n\n\nBlack Friday on the Internet\n\nAdvertisements in advance\n\nCertain websites such as DealTaker.com offer information about Black Friday deals up to a month in advance. The text listings of prices are usually accompanied by adscans -- complete PDFs either leaked by insiders, or intentionally released by large retailers to give consumers insight and allow them time to plan.\n\nCyber Monday\n\nThe term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, which unofficially marks the beginning of the holiday online shopping season.\n\nIn recent years, Cyber Monday has become a busy day for online retailers, with some sites offering low prices and other promotions on that day.\n\nControversy\n\nResponse (Buy Nothing Day)\n\nAnti-consumer frenzy protesters have chosen this day as Buy Nothing Day in North America, where those concerned about the increasing power and influence of consumer corporations are urged to not make consumer purchases.\n\nDMCA\n\nIn recent years, some retailers (including Wal-Mart, Target Corporation, Best Buy, and Staples, Inc.) have claimed that the advertisements they send in advance of Black Friday and the prices included in those advertisement are intellectual property and protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).\n\nUsing the t