A Mall in Buffalo Is Going To Fine Stores $200 An Hour If They Aren't Open At 6pm On Thanksgiving

The Week - A shopping mall in upstate New York has apparently threatened to fine retailers the insane sum of $200 an hour if they aren’t open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Walden Galleria, the Buffalo mall in question, has more than 200 stores, and the mall apparently revealed the fine in a meeting of store managers last week. This year marks the first that Walden Galleria is opening in the middle of Thanksgiving, managers told The Huffington Post. Workers aren’t happy about the mall’s extended hours, either. “It’s a family day, it’s a holiday, and frankly, it’s really getting out of hand with how stores are opening so early,” Brian McKnight, manager of the Art of Shaving boutique at Walden Galleria, told The Huffington Post. He said that his store will pay the fine and remain closed on Thanksgiving Day. “It’s about having that comfortable work-life balance and respecting my employees’ holiday time with their families.”

This is getting way out of hand. I think it’s my number one cause in the world right now. I might make a colorful bracelet for it. Black Friday was bad enough. People waking up at 2am to buy TVs and other bullshit, getting in fights over Furbies, the whole 9 yards. But I understand it. People need presents, and it’s a great day to buy cheap presents if you’re gross and poor. But now this whole opening on Thanksgiving thing is becoming a trend, and I hate it. Absolutely hate it, because I love Thanksgiving. And I wouldn’t want anyone to have to miss Thanksgiving to get some rich guy in a suit even richer. The fact there are employees at a fucking Build a Bear or some shit who are going to have to miss Thanksgiving dinner with their families because the mall is requiring the stores to open makes me sick. And the only reason they are doing it is because every other mall is opening too. It’s disgusting. We need Congress to pass legislation to end this horse shit. Malls should not have to open on Thanksgiving at fucking 6pm. Can we not be complete dickheads for one fucking day and just enjoy sitting at home and getting fat, celebrating giving Indians measles and dysentery, stealing their land and women? Isn’t that American enough?