It was slightly rhetorical, but the black friday/cyber monday/pink thursday/plaid tuesday marketing broo-ha-ha the US generates is noise pollution, completely obscuring the fact that there's anything to celebrate other than savings, Savings, SAVINGS!
I guess it's just timing more than anything, and I should have pieced that together myself. Michael On 2010-11-27, at 12:51 PM, Reagan Johnson wrote: > In my experience, Thanksgiving isn't any of those things you mentioned, > Michael. It probably also has to do with you celebrating in October, which > is much farther from Christmas. > > Thanksgiving for us is the big meal with extended family, and the long > weekend usually means there's time for some get-togethers with friends. I've > never heard of people giving cards or gifts for Thanksgiving. > > The shopping thing is the day after Thanksgiving, and in the last few decades > businesses have really started hyping it up and having big sales, but it has > less to do with Thanksgiving and more to do with the start of the Christmas > holiday season... it's really just a way to jumpstart sales and getting > people in a present-buying mentality since the time between Thanksgiving and > Christmas is usually when retailers save their bottom line for the year. > > Or maybe that was a rhetorical question. > >>> Would anyone like to offer an explanation of why U.S. Thanksgiving is a >>> shopping extravaganza of such epic proportions? >>> >>> I mean, we have Thanksgiving here in October, but we really just have the >>> turkey dinner. No gifts, cards, shopping, etc. >>> >>> I don't really understand the connection. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
