Black Friday

The Thanksgiving Day weekend is just about over. Offically the weekend starts Friday and ends Sunday, actually this year it started the Sunday before Thanksgiving. What am I talking about? Retail. I work in retail, I've worked in retail for more years than I want to think about. This is the big weekend for retail sales. This year we broke the sale that normally breaks the Friday after to start part of it the Sunday before. We tried to spread out some of the sales throughout the week, bring in some more earlier. The days before Thanksgiving are more of a grocery shopping days, getting ready for the big meal, than out there gift buying.

That's all what it normally is like. But over the years there is no more normal. Christmas keeps get pushed back farther and farther. Used to be you wouldn't see signs of Christmas in a store before the Thanksgiving weekend. Than it started creeping back to just after Halloween. I've seen Christmas decorations going out in stores over the Labor Day weekend now.

This is a crazy time of the year for us. It can be a fun time, but some people just don't know how to take the holidays. I'm not a religious person, but the Christmas holidays should mean more than who can buy the most stuff or the who gets the coolest present.

I'm not even sure where I'm going with this post. I started it meaning to basically call out all the bad shoppers and the people that make this season such a pain but along the way I just decided that I didn't want to talk about that. Believe me before this season is over I'll probably post a few comments on the whole the customer is always right motto...but like this last weekend that has been so hectic and up and down I think I just am glad it's over.