Alana Fusco, left, helps a customer at Gerald Peters, a jewelry store at New York’s Staten Island Mall.
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This more optimistic outlook, fueled by improved finances and larger gift lists, is spurring 32% of shoppers to spend more than they did past year (up from 21% in 2014). He’ll have eight employees working, and if this Thanksgiving is anything like last year’s, they’ll have their hands full. Demos Parneros, president of Staples North American stores and online, said, “We want our customers and associates to enjoy Thanksgiving their own way”.
Home improvement superstores, for example, may not feel the same pressure to be open on Thanksgiving because, unlike most retailers, the holiday season does not represent their peak sales period. But what should be required is a day off from work. The Thanksgiving Day store opening hours are crucial information to plan your shopping trips. In recent years, Vincent said he’s noticed a national trend of stores opening earlier and earlier for Black Friday.
The Rockaway Townsquare Mall will open on Thanksgiving at 6 p.m. and close at 1 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 27.
But, Mayr Malool defended the right of stores to open Thanksgiving.
Even fewer said they would in the surveys conducted by Deloitte and the International Council of Shopping Centers.
The store will open at 7 p.m. on Thursday, and the biggest deals that involve such items as electronics, will continue until 2 p.m. Friday.
Several people said on Facebook that no matter who stays open they won’t be shopping on Thanksgiving. “For the most part, our plan has always been to stay closed”, said Jackie Smith, manager of Corporate Communications for GameStop, during a phone call with The New Jersey Herald.
Many of Kryliouk’s customers are people known as snowbirds, who spend the cold weather months in Florida and head back north in the spring. Now is good time to ask around at your local stores when the line formed a year ago.
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Remember when Thanksgiving was a holiday? “Now, we’re at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day”, Vincent said. But other specials will be available all day Friday from 6 a.m.to 10 p.m.
