However, shopping can lead to exhaustion, for you have to first find your needed items through crowds of people and then wait in long lines just to buy your items. Buying more and more items may add up to becoming expensive as well. Not to mention that after you shop, you would have to set up or store away everything that you bought before your guests comes over to celebrate. In conclusion, the discussion in the article, “Shopping Trumps Turkey”, by Gregory Karp, represents different opinions between whether or not retailers should continue releasing Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving day.
In “Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization” Andrew Leonard argues about ad spree by retailers and the consumers’ frenzy for buying on Black Friday that cross all limits of civilization. Leonard shows how Macy’s, Target and Kohls ad drive the consumers to buying craze on Thanks giving holiday. To illustrate his idea Leonard gives such specific examples of specific stores. While being so sarcastic about Black Friday buying craze, Leonard supports this to help American economy and employment. But, late night standing on line on Thanks Giving day outside the retail store to buy indicates our craziness.
A Summary and Response to Andrew Leonard’s “Black Friday: Consumerism minus Civilization.” It all started in the 1960s; Someone thought that it would a good idea to make the day after Thanksgiving a great day for advertising for shopping for Christmas. Andrew Leonard covers this topic of how bizarre shopping has become in recent years in “Black Friday: Consumerism minus Civilization.” Leonard pokes fun at the consumers who rush these stores for the best deals offered up by the crazed advertisements.
In her essay, “In Praise of Chain Stores”, Virginia Postrel hails the progressiveness of chain stores and counters arguments made against them. As a frequent shopper in my city, I have experienced the benefits of chain stores and how they affect the locals that shop in them. I believe that chain stores have not turned Augusta into a boring city because they are familiar even to those new to the area, they have a high standard of quality and service, and provide fair fixed prices. First, Postrel quotes Thomas Friedman in her essay, stating that “…America is mind numbingly monotonous- the most boring country to tour; because ‘everywhere looks like everwhere else…’ the familiarity of a Walmart to someone new to Augusta may be a relief,
In her article "Enormous Box Stores Are Bad for Main Street," Betsy Taylor concentrates not on the financial impacts of expansive chain stores yet on the impacts these stores have on the "spirit" of America. She contends that stores like Home Depot, Target, and Wal-Mart are terrible for America in light of the fact that they draw individuals out of downtown shopping regions and reason them to concentrate only on utilization. Conversely, she trusts that little organizations are useful for America in light of the fact that they give individual consideration, foster group cooperation, and make every city one of a kind. In any case, Taylor's contention is eventually unconvincing in light of the fact that it depends on wistfulness—on glorified pictures
Safran Foer proves that if celebrators of Thanksgiving want to honor traditions at Thanksgiving, then they need to reconsider what the Thanksgiving tradition really
It can be seen, that when an individual enters a store the odds of them following a personal shopping list is very low. People often buy unnecessary products on impulse, and these products are often the ones most easily accessible by consumers. Many large grocery store corporations often argue that “if you eat too much it is your problem, not theirs” (Nestle 2006). Grocery store corporations are constantly persuading consumers to purchase more food rather than less. Overall, Nestle provides a strong argument for the debate that grocery
It’s A Heart Thing Are we forfeiting the value of our holiday season? Have we completely abandoned tradition in exchange for consumerism? Some people argue that this is exactly the case. They would have us believe that we have surrendered every last bit of goodness, because we are so utterly consumed by physical possessions. Mark Walsh, in his essay titled “If You Go Black Friday Shopping on Thanksgiving, You’re Part of the Problem,” summarizes this perspective by claiming, “That’s the new meaning of Thanksgiving: count your blessings, and then buy some more blessings and count them again.”
Stores should not be open on thanksgiving/Black Friday. Even though It is very good for the stores to be open on Black Friday/Thanksgiving, stores should not be open on Thanksgiving because it affects lots of people by being open. People are very dangerous on Black Friday and there have been 7 deaths plus 98 injuries because of Black Friday. People are very dangerous on Black Friday.
Thanksgiving is slowly becoming just another shopping day and retailers are saying that they are just doing what the shoppers want. Whether or not the stores should be open on Thanksgiving has been becoming a more heated topic. Articles 1,2, and 3 covered this very topic. However, articles 1 and 2 have a strong argument against the stores being open with good facts and statistics. Article 3 is very opinionated and rambles on and on.
What path should the allied powers have gone down in order to create a world peace? Would the world consist of less poverty? How would world history and economy be different from how it is today? Nations opposing Adolf Hitler should have used collective security to potentially stop a world war. Three reasons why opposing nations should have used collective security is because if Hitler were appeased, then he would continue to imperialise other nations.
In Charlie Browns Thanksgiving it start with Lucy and Charlie in the yard, she wants him to kick the football. She says that thanksgiving is all about tradition and one of those traditions is the opening kickoff of the football. When she pulls the football away and he falls on his back she says that some traditions are not kept. This opening scene setups the rest of the episode to come, by subliminally alluding that traditions are not kept. We later see that Charlie Brown is supposed to go by his grandmother's house but when called by peppermint patty she invites herself and 2 other to tag along to have thanksgiving at his house.
As studied by Janet Siskind, the American Thanksgiving celebration is actually a very detailed ritual that contains many symbols. Similar to other rituals, the holiday reinforces certain social structures and “…reaffirms values and assumptions about cultural and social unity, about identity and history, about inclusion and exclusion” (168). The Thanksgiving ritual is centered around a return home, as people traveled from their urban homes back to their rural home to meet with their larger family. As a result, “the household became the site of ritual performance…” (175). The goal of the Thanksgiving ritual was to reaffirm the family and renew traditional ties, especially as more people had started moving into the cities around the time that the holiday became popular in the United States (176).
On November 18, 2015, Forbes reported their prediction about turkey price for the coming Thanksgiving Day. According to their article, USDA reported that retailers cost price of turkey rose, while retailing price should fall. The cost price which retailers pay were rising from last year, and this is because of the outbreak of bird flu in this Spring. In this outbreak, 40 million chickens and 8 million turkeys were lost, and it was predicted to make shortage of turkey on Thanksgiving. Again, USDA reported the retailers’ cost price of turkey was $1.35 per a pound, up from $1.17 in last year, while the retail price consumers pay should be 87 cents per a pound, down from 93 cents in last year.
As Thanksgiving Day approaches, several people have begun reflecting on their blessings. I am profoundly thankful for everything in my life, nevertheless there is one thing that stands out from the others. I met my best friend almost four years ago. He has brought loads of laughter and happiness into my life since the day we met. He and I create new memories together everyday.
