Stick a fork in the sacrosanctity of Thanksgiving — it is done. A number of retailers, most famously Walmart, will be opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day, on the premise that they will be scooping up sales from consumers too eager to wait for Black Friday. Whether that is true or whether so-called Gray Thursday will cannibalize sales meant for Black Friday and Cyber Monday is yet to be determined.
What is certain is that the time period in which consumers can score incredibly low-priced deals has expanded to include Thanksgiving Day.
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The Thanksgiving Holiday vs. Holiday Shopping Tug-of-War
Posted by: Erika Morphy November 21, 2012 12:37 PMStick a fork in the sacrosanctity of Thanksgiving — it is done. A number of retailers, most famously Walmart, will be opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day, on the premise that they will be scooping up sales from consumers too eager to wait for Black Friday. Whether that is true or whether so-called Gray Thursday will cannibalize sales meant for Black Friday and Cyber Monday is yet to be determined.
What is certain is that the time period in which consumers can score incredibly low-priced deals has expanded to include Thanksgiving Day.