That's right! It should be just Thanksgiving and NOT Thanksgiving/Christmas. Black Friday is absurd, why wait out in the cold for a big sale only to get trampled on when the doors open. Besides, stor employees need time off with their families just like everybody else on Thanksgiving!
The boing at 1:49 triggered me. Not once did they pinpoint the problem. Greedy companies who want to push for as much as they can make at the suffering of their employees. It’s torture.
maybe employees need to find a way to get injured by the rabid shoppers, the file work comp claims. maybe it would shut down a few retailers and send a message.
My store did it for days instead of just one or two best idea ever for the second year in a row. There has been no stress atrocious mobs or crowds whatsoever. I often dreaded this time of year due to my job in the past but this year it is slow and enjoyable for a change.
Food comas on Thanksgiving is like it should be. Out and about not really a GREAT idea. I do hope the stores learn from this. As they HOPEFULLY see that people want to spend Thanksgiving with their families as well as the workers. And its considered Black Friday for a reason, cause its on FRIDAY! NOT THURSDAY! People LOVE to ruin the holidays by having it fly by or doing something like this. LIFE IN THE MOMENT, YOU ONLY GET ONE LIFE!
What my cousins and I do is we eat and celebrate Thanksgiving together and then around 9pm we go to walmart/target for shopping for games or movies. Then Friday we shop like everyone else
For all of you saying cruel things about America here's something I have to say to you. NOT ALL AMERICANS GO OUT FOR BLACK FRIDAY! Some stores close and say we're not opening on holidays. They thinks people should be with their families instead of shopping! I agree with that it's cruel for people to be snooping instead of being with their families. Stop saying all the cruel stuff about Americans because not all agree with going Black Friday shopping!
All you people who shop like this for stupid bargains. Just take a look at your behaviour. One day it will be your parents or children getting crushed and injured by other pathetic morons because youve set the standard. What is the matter with you all, really, what is wrong with your mentality that you behave like this to save a bit of cash on a TV etc. You probably dont even want it, you just dont want others to have it. What a world, what a God damn world.
This is why I think stores should have 'back up' employees that are WILLING to work on holidays, because some people really are alone and have nothing to do on some holidays, and what better way to spend it than helping another person by filling in for them and getting paid in the process. Just for one day.
People who are willing to choose black friday over spending the holiday with their families need to look in the mirror. I mean, for those shoppers who trample others and are so violent and so driven by their want for these things that they will set aside and sacrifice their own traditions and ways of life for these luxuries.... When you are willing to give yourself up for shit this easily, its time to look in the mirror and re-evaluate.
I'm not on any horse, looking down on anyone. It's an observation. The point is this. There is nothing wrong with people trying to buy things for their families or even save money. But when you see, oh I don't know, people elbowing old women, fighting, pushing, into stores to buy products because they want to "save" money, it kind of speaks of their character. Taking a business class? You should know that the idea of a "discount", in REALITY, does not exist. Let's agree to disagree.
Even then you are supporting people working on Thanksgiving. People have to spend time away from their families to run concession stands and other necessities at the stadium, so why is it any different?
buy buy buy This is just so crazy........materialism is such a waste of time....... I will never understand the thrill of shopping.I have friends who are always tired after thanksgiving week end just sooo not worth it.
Look at the sick and ill minds of america ;( That is me crying for reals. I don't want to live here anymore. It's sick and embarrassing to be part of this part of the world. I hope human kind will learn one day from this time in the future.
“Instead of watching football we could be shoppin’!” she says. How about HELL NO!!!! I’d rather watch the Macys Parade and then the annual Lions-Bears game, then eat dinner, then play with the dog, visit with family, have a couple of beers, make my shopping list for the next day, take a shower then go to bed! EXCLUSIVELY IN THAT ORDER!
There was a time when stores closed on Thanksgiving out of respect for families. Now it's Christmas for Satan. I boycott these stores, choosing to spend the time with family, especially since one close family member is ill. The stores will be there tomorrow. Who knows which family members may not be able to be with us next holiday. Spend the holiday like it's your last!!!
Torka123 That’s the point. Let people shop, shop, shop, shop, shop. Businesses want entitled customers and employees who don’t value themselves because it creates a social situation where they make more money
Except for a handful of "loss leaders" the so-called "bargains" on Black Friday aren't actually that spectacular. Certainly not waiting in line for hours or having to contend with a mob of frenzied cretins.
it seems most people for what ever reason took Christ out of christmas ,and made christmas just a day to buy stuff people dont need ,so why don't the store owners promote hanukkah you know, buy and give for a week. they can have hanaclaus and hanadwarfs, the marketing is unlimited, then they would create 7 times the cash flow !!
We should put a law to ban such selling on a family holiday it's sad they turned a holiday into a stupid frenzy stuff that is only 100 or 200 cheap not worth it
Walmart does not do Holiday pay any more and haven't pay for the last 4 or more years. Now If we call of on any Holiday it is going to count as 2 call offs, not just Christmas.
I like the fact that the Disney store I work for doesn't work on any big Holidays. Thanksgiving nor Christmas. Also the hours here are 4-6 on Holidays, so its perfect.
HOW PATHETIC ! Holidays used to be special days when family gathered. Now they're nothing more than another excuse for MINDLESS CONSUMERISM. Sickening ! Yes, fellow Americans - go out and buy ANOTHER TV, the latest & greatest electronic toy phone (which will be obsolete in 6 mos.), or some over-priced kid's toy made in China. HELL NO - don't take time to sit down with your family and THANK GOD for his blessings. That's OK - soon God will judge this greedy nation, and all your toys will burn.
Yeah nothings right about retailers dragging there employees away from a day where all families should be getting together with families that they haven't seen in so long it's a joke Only reason Walmart happy about there 8 clock open black Friday thing is cuz they are making more money
I hate the holidays now every year my store opens earlier I have to come in this year 1:30pm thanksgiving day to 11pm then be back at work the next day 8am to 5:30 wtf 🤬and it’s all because of ppl who shop on thanksgiving thanks a lot to all those self centered low life’s!!
Summer Wallace you could always go work for a different retailer. One that doesn’t operate on thanksgiving. Or better yet get out of retail entirely if you can. 😀
In New Zealand, if employees have to work on a public holiday they are paid time and a half and a day in lu,, which means if their hourly rate is $13, they will be paid $19.50 per hour and then they will get a day off at a later stage... is this the same for USA?
Says MacNoughton VP or Wallymart, "We're all excited"... WTF Guess were he'll be from the week of Thanksgiving and the week of Christmas...??? WITH HIS FAMILY. Pompous, egotistical, I've earned what I get on the backs of the worker.
What, in the end, on a bigger, more conscious scale of things, do you thinks make loved ones more happy? Say, receiving a new iphone that will distract them for hours or so or spending the same time and effort just being with your family, maybe even having a conversation about what it means to be thankful? My grandfather is dying and if there's one thing I would trade it's all the shit he gave me as a kid to just talk with him more about his life, who he is and what he learned. Grow up.
i dont think it is that bad because i am a vegetarian so on thanksgiving day i just sit there with only pie while the others stuff their faces with all kinds of meatಥ_ಥ
I love how the bosses and VPs are excited about this. THEY will be home with their families while these people are WORKING.
collecting their holiday bonuses! Don't forget that!
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Womp womp
They should pay big bonus to employees working on thanksgiving .
A big bonus or double pay for the day.
That's right! It should be just Thanksgiving and NOT Thanksgiving/Christmas. Black Friday is absurd, why wait out in the cold for a big sale only to get trampled on when the doors open. Besides, stor employees need time off with their families just like everybody else on Thanksgiving!
I've never been a big fan of labor unions, but if anyone needs to organize it's retail employees.
The boing at 1:49 triggered me. Not once did they pinpoint the problem. Greedy companies who want to push for as much as they can make at the suffering of their employees. It’s torture.
They dont care about their employees. They only care about $$$$$$$$$
Literally like a zombie apocalypse
maybe employees need to find a way to get injured by the rabid shoppers, the file work comp claims. maybe it would shut down a few retailers and send a message.
And then all the other people that work there are out of a job because of one greedy SOB with entitlement mentality. Great plan!
My store did it for days instead of just one or two best idea ever for the second year in a row. There has been no stress atrocious mobs or crowds whatsoever. I often dreaded this time of year due to my job in the past but this year it is slow and enjoyable for a change.
Ridiculous. Friday is fine but Thursday. That is too much. let these people enjoy that one day.
Food comas on Thanksgiving is like it should be. Out and about not really a GREAT idea. I do hope the stores learn from this. As they HOPEFULLY see that people want to spend Thanksgiving with their families as well as the workers. And its considered Black Friday for a reason, cause its on FRIDAY! NOT THURSDAY! People LOVE to ruin the holidays by having it fly by or doing something like this. LIFE IN THE MOMENT, YOU ONLY GET ONE LIFE!
corporations are heartless
There’s nothing on this planet that I want this bad!
What my cousins and I do is we eat and celebrate Thanksgiving together and then around 9pm we go to walmart/target for shopping for games or movies. Then Friday we shop like everyone else
This is messed up
For all of you saying cruel things about America here's something I have to say to you. NOT ALL AMERICANS GO OUT FOR BLACK FRIDAY! Some stores close and say we're not opening on holidays. They thinks people should be with their families instead of shopping! I agree with that it's cruel for people to be snooping instead of being with their families. Stop saying all the cruel stuff about Americans because not all agree with going Black Friday shopping!
All you people who shop like this for stupid bargains. Just take a look at your behaviour. One day it will be your parents or children getting crushed and injured by other pathetic morons because youve set the standard. What is the matter with you all, really, what is wrong with your mentality that you behave like this to save a bit of cash on a TV etc. You probably dont even want it, you just dont want others to have it. What a world, what a God damn world.
+Dave T (Teapot) These ppl need to look in the mirror
This is what retail Christmas is all about? I day boycott black Friday as well as having black Thanksgiving. It is shameful that people act this way.
This is why I think stores should have 'back up' employees that are WILLING to work on holidays, because some people really are alone and have nothing to do on some holidays, and what better way to spend it than helping another person by filling in for them and getting paid in the process. Just for one day.
People who are willing to choose black friday over spending the holiday with their families need to look in the mirror. I mean, for those shoppers who trample others and are so violent and so driven by their want for these things that they will set aside and sacrifice their own traditions and ways of life for these luxuries.... When you are willing to give yourself up for shit this easily, its time to look in the mirror and re-evaluate.
I'm not on any horse, looking down on anyone. It's an observation.
The point is this. There is nothing wrong with people trying to buy things for their families or even save money. But when you see, oh I don't know, people elbowing old women, fighting, pushing, into stores to buy products because they want to "save" money, it kind of speaks of their character. Taking a business class? You should know that the idea of a "discount", in REALITY, does not exist.
Let's agree to disagree.
I work at Big Lots, we're open from 7am to 9pm on Thanksgiving...
What a mockery of Thanksgiving Day! As for me and my family, we will be enjoying pumpkin pie tonight and watching football on TV.
Even then you are supporting people working on Thanksgiving. People have to spend time away from their families to run concession stands and other necessities at the stadium, so why is it any different?
People who need to work on Thanksgiving choose to do so. I choose to enjoy my family.
Z Z that makes no sense at all you dumb ass
Black Friday, it’s just dangerous, stuff gets destroyed, people die, how something like this even exists
buy buy buy This is just so crazy........materialism is such a waste of time....... I will never understand the thrill of shopping.I have friends who are always tired after thanksgiving week end just sooo not worth it.
I hate it now in england shops are open boxing day...2 days with your family is too much...plus shops open sundays...less time with family and kids...
Look at the sick and ill minds of america ;( That is me crying for reals. I don't want to live here anymore. It's sick and embarrassing to be part of this part of the world. I hope human kind will learn one day from this time in the future.
“Instead of watching football we could be shoppin’!” she says. How about HELL NO!!!! I’d rather watch the Macys Parade and then the annual Lions-Bears game, then eat dinner, then play with the dog, visit with family, have a couple of beers, make my shopping list for the next day, take a shower then go to bed! EXCLUSIVELY IN THAT ORDER!
Thanksgiving holidays means family friend having good dinner & gathering not shopping 🛍
There was a time when stores closed on Thanksgiving out of respect for families.
Now it's Christmas for Satan.
I boycott these stores, choosing to spend the time with family, especially since one close family member is ill.
The stores will be there tomorrow. Who knows which family members may not be able to be with us next holiday.
Spend the holiday like it's your last!!!
kerryav I was thinking more that it’s Satan’s birthday and this is his birthday present that many stupid people are giving him
All this to celebrate the birth of Jesus?
The Black Friday fight is terrible!
I have no more hope for humanity
thanks for acting like the MILLIONS of us who stay home, save our money, and don't participate in this corrupt day do not exist....
@@d.lawrence5670 you are welcome
People are acting like its an apocalypse
No-- it;'s a shop-pocalypse!
GREEDY FRIDAY
And that is why u should have thanks giving a week before the real holiday
American workers are such doormats
Torka123 That’s the point. Let people shop, shop, shop, shop, shop. Businesses want entitled customers and employees who don’t value themselves because it creates a social situation where they make more money
Except for a handful of "loss leaders" the so-called "bargains" on Black Friday aren't actually that spectacular. Certainly not waiting in line for hours or having to contend with a mob of frenzied cretins.
Wait, you people think Walmart cares about your Thanksgiving???
Black Friday door buster special. Obama's new book "the Promised Land". For every copy sold, unsold copies will be grifted to shoplifters.
it seems most people for what ever reason took Christ out of christmas ,and made christmas just a day to buy stuff people dont need ,so why don't the store owners promote hanukkah you know, buy and give for a week. they can have hanaclaus and hanadwarfs, the marketing is unlimited, then they would create 7 times the cash flow !!
Every one is selfish and grumpy and keep pushing so that's why black Friday is the worse
We should put a law to ban such selling on a family holiday
it's sad they turned a holiday into a stupid frenzy stuff that is only 100 or 200 cheap
not worth it
Thank god we go to target
Hey ABC NEWS I got an idea how about Black Friday online ?
Of course the asshole bosses are gonna be excited about it, They weren't there most likely
Those Ayn Rand comic books are rotting your brain.
Kmart gone forever
YES... Thank you.. I would rather not be a part of this madness...ever.
Really people?? Crazy nuts. I feel bad for the workers. :(
Welcome to 21st century America!
Walmart does not do Holiday pay any more and haven't pay for the last 4 or more years. Now If we call of on any Holiday it is going to count as 2 call offs, not just Christmas.
I like the fact that the Disney store I work for doesn't work on any big Holidays. Thanksgiving nor Christmas. Also the hours here are 4-6 on Holidays, so its perfect.
HOW PATHETIC ! Holidays used to be special days when family gathered. Now they're nothing more than another excuse for MINDLESS CONSUMERISM. Sickening ! Yes, fellow Americans - go out and buy ANOTHER TV, the latest & greatest electronic toy phone (which will be obsolete in 6 mos.), or some over-priced kid's toy made in China. HELL NO - don't take time to sit down with your family and THANK GOD for his blessings. That's OK - soon God will judge this greedy nation, and all your toys will burn.
@hankster0052 don't generalize. Those people you see there are narrow minded. Many aren't like that.
What has this world come to.... I am so disappointed in everyone....
Yeah nothings right about retailers dragging there employees away from a day where all families should be getting together with families that they haven't seen in so long it's a joke
Only reason Walmart happy about there 8 clock open black Friday thing is cuz they are making more money
I hate the holidays now every year my store opens earlier I have to come in this year 1:30pm thanksgiving day to 11pm then be back at work the next day 8am to 5:30 wtf 🤬and it’s all because of ppl who shop on thanksgiving thanks a lot to all those self centered low life’s!!
Summer Wallace you could always go work for a different retailer. One that doesn’t operate on thanksgiving. Or better yet get out of retail entirely if you can. 😀
this didn't age well- covids a thing
Those retail workers need to stop complaining and be happy they have jobs.
Any kmarts still open? 😂
In New Zealand, if employees have to work on a public holiday they are paid time and a half and a day in lu,, which means if their hourly rate is $13, they will be paid $19.50 per hour and then they will get a day off at a later stage... is this the same for USA?
MsRainbow Brite yes we get paid time and a half but a day in lu is not a thing here.
It should be. That would be a great idea.
off topic but...TURTLES in the background at the beginning!
It's still overpriced crap so who cares.
Soonly enough thanksgiving will now be called "Black Friday"
EternalSnoie how about Thanks Getting instead?
1.27 SO EVERY GIRL EATS TURKEY AND GO TO THE TOILET TO POO XX YES
arrogance causes this .....
you dont work retail
People don't have thanksgiving due to this I'm all for the change if possible
Says MacNoughton VP or Wallymart, "We're all excited"... WTF Guess were he'll be from the week of Thanksgiving and the week of Christmas...??? WITH HIS FAMILY. Pompous, egotistical, I've earned what I get on the backs of the worker.
I have seen BLACK friday just once in my life and I got nothin on that day
What, in the end, on a bigger, more conscious scale of things, do you thinks make loved ones more happy? Say, receiving a new iphone that will distract them for hours or so or spending the same time and effort just being with your family, maybe even having a conversation about what it means to be thankful?
My grandfather is dying and if there's one thing I would trade it's all the shit he gave me as a kid to just talk with him more about his life, who he is and what he learned.
Grow up.
Ce sont des fous !
wow thats crazy. i like canada a little more everyday lol.
#BlackFridayWalkOut
Fuck Wal-Mart over.
What if car dealers have black friday. That would be a great u tube vid to see
screw that! I shop online!
You, the media, are promoting this type of behavior and encouraging stores opening on Thursday. Shameful.
i've never black fridayed. its only an image i hear about on the news
@sir1junior I was being sarcastic
Just keep promoting Wal-mart. Week three now of ABC promoting them. What a joke.
1:02 zombie invasion 😀
Prefiro esperar o Black Friday do que entrar na loja com esse tanto de gente
i dont think it is that bad because i am a vegetarian so on thanksgiving day i just sit there with only pie while the others stuff their faces with all kinds of meatಥ_ಥ
lolamerica
Daaaaammmm. These people act like they cant go a second without tecknolge or something. I mean really =-O
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