Ruthlessness. No respect for the country's national holiday.

Thanksgiving is a family holiday. While the Walmart Family sits comfortably after their celebration, they can then ride the economic wave to deprive the nation of it's holiday.

Part of the reason these are national holidays is because so many celebrate them as a holy day. If the country didn't recognize Thanksgiving as a holiday very few employees would show up in their government positions and/or their private positions for employment. Therefore, the reason for Thanksgiving is based in religious observation. 

This is some of the ruthless behavior I have ever witnessed by Wall Street. Walmart is among the largest retailers and should be setting an example, but, are they? NOoooooo.....money first before family, family bonding and time with purpose beyond that of the financial status of the nation. 

Where are the unions?

By Jillian Berman  
Posted: 11/12/2013 12:03 am EST 
Updated: 11/12/2013 12:54 pm

Walmart is kicking off Black Friday 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day (click here) -- two hours earlier than last year, the company announced Tuesday.
The retailer joins 9 others, including Target, Kmart and Best Buy, in opening its doors and starting Black Friday deals on Thanksgiving. It continues a recent industry trend of moving Black Friday earlier and earlier -- ultimately to Thanksgiving Day. Chains are looking squeeze more out of the hugely profitable holiday shopping season, especially this year, when calendar quirks have made it six days shorter...

Originally Published 11/16/2013

Thanksgiving and Hanukkah fall on hte same day for the first time in 125 years (click here)

Bruce Posten

Reading Eagle

 

For the first time in 125 years, Jewish families will celebrate two overlapping holidays, Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, as they gather together to dine in gratitude on Nov. 28.

"I got my menurkey," said Jayne Kleinman, program director at the Jewish Cultural Center of Reading, Wyomissing. "It's a plaster turkey-shaped menorah with the holes in the back to light the candles. I bought it through an Internet program for a fundraising event."

The menurkey was designed and named by a New York City fourth-grader, with the unique purpose of combining the thoughts of thankfulness at the heart of the two holidays.

Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is an observance commemorating the rededication of the ancient temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees following their victory over the Syrians around 165 BC....

Thanksgiving and Hanukkah fall on the same day for the first time in 125 years.