Thanksgiving: Americans to abandon dinner tables early for ‘Grey Thursday’

Casey St Clair, a 24-year-old employee of retail giant Target, created an
online petition urging the company “to take the high road and save
Thanksgiving for employees”.

“You are most likely tucked away in bed while workers are in the stores
pushing back a rabid crowd of shoppers trying to get an iPod,” she
wrote in an open letter to Gregg Steinhafel, Target’s chief executive.

The petition has gathered more than 360,000 signatures.

Rick Segel, an author and retail expert, warned that the trend of Thanksgiving
openings was “inevitable” and only likely to continue.

“The retailers have created an event and people want to be part of that
event. They want to wait it line with hundreds of other people for the store
opening – it’s part of the thrill,” he told The Daily Telegraph.

Black Friday is usually the busiest day in the shopping calendar, even if it
does not always rack up the highest level of sales.

Two people were shot during robberies last year and at least 10 people injured
when a woman fired pepper spray in a crowded Walmart.

While Thanksgiving shopping may partly dilute the frenzy on Black Friday,
experts have also noticed a growing trend towards “Cyber Monday” –
when shoppers return to work and use their office computers to find bargains
online. Britain’s cyber Monday meanwhile is on Monday December 3, with more
than 100 million online visits expected, according to data by analyst group
Experian.

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