We haven't always acted like animals on Black Friday. Watch this comparison of Black Friday 1983 and last year's Black Friday. Oh my gosh, how did this all happen? We're crazy.
For the dedicated deal-seekers and those who don't have close friends and family to spend Thanksgiving with, taking advantage of early Black Friday shopping sounds like a great idea. Okay, there's also the ones who want to skip out on game night with their weird aunt. At least 15 stores will be opening on Thanksgiving night. Here's the list we have so far:
Black Friday means waking up about an hour after you went to bed on Thanksgiving night, it means a stop for coffee and it means standing in the freezing cold just waiting for that store's front door to open and let us barge toward the discounted scarf, the huge TV and the one-of-a-kind toy that Santa said he would get. I'm...
Stores opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day to usher in the holiday shopping season is almost as much a part of turkey day as football and a tryptophan-induced nap, but that may change.