Best Buy is one of the major retailer chains that won’t stay open from Thanksgiving night straight through to Black Friday.
In case you’re looking for a silver lining to the holiday of horribleness that is Black Friday, we have a small morsel. The Star-Tribune reports that mega-chain Best Buy will close its doors for a few hours after having opened Thanksgiving night in order to give their employees a rest before the deluge of human waste on Black Friday. Or at least they claim it’s because people need rest. In truth, sales appear to taper between 2AM and 6AM on Friday so Best Buy will shutter its doors to let people sleep.
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Let’s be honest though: this isn’t an act of charity or anything done by a company concerned for its employees. Best Buy shareholders likely saw a big dip in sales for that small stretch of time and decided it wasn’t worth staying open. Rest assured, if there was a penny to be made, those employees would be wheeled out there Hannibal Lecter-style if they had to be.
Best Buy will open at 5PM and will be joined by Radio Shack in closing around 1AM. “This will give our employees an opportunity to rest and get some sleep,” said Jeff Shelman from Best Buy. “It also gives us an opportunity to clean and refresh our stores between Thursday night and Friday morning.”
Soulless machines Target and Wal-Mart will continue to be their awful selves and remain open forever and ever beyond 6PM on Thanksgiving. Godspeed to anyone unfortunate enough to work for one of those conglomerates.
Even worse in all this is that there are people already camped outside a Best Buy near Los Angeles to get a cheap television. That’s a solid two weeks before Thanksgiving and Black Friday that they are waiting. These people are forfeiting two weeks of their lives to save a couple hundred bucks on a television. We aren’t economics majors, but that hardly seems like a deal.
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