We already have people stuck working to man the airports and restaurants. We shouldn’t be asking even more people to work, particularly when shopping (thankfully!) isn’t even part of our Thanksgiving tradition, unlike traveling to be with family or enjoying a meal together.
[…] For many of us, our workweeks are Monday through Friday. […] But if you work retail or other jobs that involve regular weekends and nights — and many of your friends and family do — it’s tougher to get everyone together. It’s hard to find a day when everyone is off and can gather together.
It used to be that holidays were those days: A time when just about everyone, regardless of his job, was able to spend the day with loved ones.
Making Thanksgiving a working day is going to change that. It’s going to take away from retail employees a rare universal day off.
And frankly, I can’t imagine what you could buy on Thanksgiving that would make that trade-off worth it to our culture.
via Nobody Should Go Shopping on Thanksgiving | National Review Online.