People work on Thanksgiving, always have. Many stores are open on Thanksgiving, always have been. Funny how nobody cared about it until WalMart decided to be open, then it became a great tragedy. I just hope none of the people complaining about it are planning on watching the parade, or really any TV, don’t listen to the radio either, and you sure better not need gas or emergency ingredients for dinner, pretty much all travel is out... Meanwhile I’m going to my favorite restaurant.
Gotta call BS on this. Years ago the retail areas were a ghost town on Thanksgiving, hell you couldn't even get gas because they were all shut down and I'm talking about a city like Dearborn. If you forgot to get something you just had to go without, period.
(ok, perhaps I'm an old fart to you at 48, but I still remember as a kid how desolate it was on that afternoon)