Why Are We Shopping On Thanksgiving?

What is wrong with these nutty American market practices?
They are giving us all super sales at the exact time we should be on our way to grandma's house?
Say we get to grandma's. We have to be careful to leave  for a few hours to be time for sales?
How about the store gives me an honest price, any day.
Thanksgiving is the one day of the year kids can be sure they are free to play all day with family.
Children are guaranteed a four day week end and good home cooked meals every day for families
not grocery challenged.
America has all but killed childhood already. Now when do the children get to interact with extended
family. When they meet relatives it can give them a sense they themselves are extended, especially when they recognize everyone knows them or knows of them.  Instead of those moments settling in,
someone gets up to go buy a camera because they can get it for less than it is worth?
Why are we so obsessed with not paying a fair price?  This is a costly obsession.  Even if you are
someone who makes only 7$ an hour, when you spend two hours getting in and out of a crowded store, you have used up 14$ of your time.
If you are unemployed, talk with your family members about their jobs. When the week-end is over,
go to dollar store.
Salespeople have had their days interrupted so I can buy cheap towels?
Stores don't even pay overtime or holiday pay any longer. Are we to waste our own time and theirs?
There are exceptions.
If your family is intolerable, go home Friday. Or do go to a movie if your kids actually like Auntie
Grace's three hours of magic tricks. Movie workers are accustomed to splitting holiday shifts.
Whatever you do, please don't go to "the sale" at precisely the moment a white snake slithers out of
the woods at midnight, so that you can be banned from "the sale" the second someone hears the clock
strikes "eye of newt".
Hocus pocus - pay a fair price. Later. On your holiday, eat something.