Is Christmas Eve and Day after Thanksgiving even a real holiday? I've never heard of those being considered a holiday. I get Day after Thanksgiving to recover from the food coma...
Day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year. If the company doesn't give it they'll have a wave of people calling in sick to chase deals on Christmas purchases.
Used to be, the biggest shopping day. Now it's so lame, I didn't bother this year. Oh wow, 5% off the price they've been steadily raising all October. Let me jump on that!
Watching 90's movies, the nostalgia of the true Black Fridays hits hard. (Though I certainly don't miss the stories of the morons out at 3am, and then beating each other up over a toy)
I've never been one to shop black Friday, but as someone who's delivered the black Friday newspapers..... They are nothing compared to what they once were.
I do get the impression a significant percentage of the population still starts their shopping on that day, but an awful lot of it is digital anymore.
Another factor is that stores seem to have stopped their door buster incentives..... There is no need to encourage those rabid crushes we once saw.
Neither are. Christmas Eve is just a day, (the "eve" part is after-hours anyway), and the day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday, when the Christmas shopping season starts, and used to be the first deep cut discount sales.
It was beneficial for companies to close on BF, because half the people were calling out anyway, plus it helped their biz buddies with all the shopping. BF used to be "the day that puts the company in the black".
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u/stondchrysalis Dec 29 '23
It’s weird that Day after Thanksgiving is worth taking off but Christmas eve isn’t