{"id":2182,"date":"2014-11-21T11:20:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2014-11-21T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T18:12:49","slug":"these-brick-township-retailers-are-remaining-closed-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/11\/these-brick-township-retailers-are-remaining-closed-on-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"These Brick Township Retailers Are Remaining Closed on Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Costco,<\/a>

Costco, Brick, N.J. (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

A week out from Black Friday, all signs show the grassroots movement to pressure large retailers against opening their doors early on Thanksgiving Day is picking up major traction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was something terribly offensive to me about this violent, gluttonous, materialistic shopping holiday eating up the one day we\u2019re just meant to be thankful for what we have,\u201d Brian Rich, owner of the Boycott Black Friday Facebook page, told Forbes<\/a> in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

Driven by a mix of a desire to uphold Thanksgiving tradition with a side of workers\u2019 rights fervor, big box retailers Walmart and K-mart have drawn the ire of many by opening their doors early on Turkey Day, thus denying their employees the chance to spend the holiday with their families. RadioShack, which had planned to open all day, faced major pushback from customers and relented<\/a> \u2013 a little \u2013 saying they would close between 12 noon and 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

K-mart \u2013 singled out as the worst offender \u2013 opens at 6 a.m. and some employees have anonymously blown the whistle on memos advising them that they would be \u201cautomatically fired\u201d if they don\u2019t show up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to express deep appreciation in advance to all associates who will be working Thanksgiving and Black Friday,\u201d the company said in a statement<\/a> to the ThinkProgress blog.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t want to give any extra publicity to those stores that are opening on Thanksgiving, so we thought we\u2019d highlight those in Brick that will not<\/em> be open. Besides the positive publicity, staying closed on Thanksgiving is likely good business: a recent RichRelevance survey<\/a> showed 62 percent of Americans either \u201chate\u201d (36 percent) or \u201cdislike\u201d (26 percent) retailers who open their doors.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the list:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Barnes & Noble
\n\u2022 Bed, Bath and Beyond
\n\u2022 Burlington Coat Factory
\n\u2022 Costco
\n\u2022 GameStop
\n\u2022 Home Depot
\n\u2022 Jo Ann Fabrics
\n\u2022 Lowe\u2019s
\n\u2022 Marshalls
\n\u2022 PC Richard and Son
\n\u2022 Petco<\/p>\n

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A week out from Black Friday, all signs show the grassroots movement to pressure large retailers against opening their doors early on Thanksgiving Day is picking up major traction. \u201cThere was something terribly offensive to me about this violent, gluttonous, materialistic shopping holiday eating up the one day we\u2019re just meant to be thankful for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,609,612,611,610,613],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-costco","tag-open","tag-stores","tag-thanksgiving-2014","tag-thanksgiving-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/costco.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-zc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}