It’s also one of the nation’s most aggressive anti-union companies, with a long history of trying to squelch unionization efforts. employees-more than the population of Vermont and Wyoming combined-Walmart is by far the nation’s largest private-sector employer. And when the meat department of a Walmart store in Texas became the retailer’s only operation in the United States to unionize, back in 2000, Walmart announced plans two weeks later to use prepackaged meat and eliminate butchers at that store and 179 others. on Thursday - to get a jump start on the holiday shopping season.Įventually, Thanksgiving became known as "Brown Thursday."Ī combination of factors, including the pandemic, changing public sentiment and the meteoric growth of online shopping - which accounted for roughly $768 billion dollars in retail revenue last year, according to Statista - now means stores can close on Thanksgiving without worrying about the bottom line.Ĭostco, BJ's Wholesale Club, Home Depot, Macy's and Sam's Club are among the other chains that will be closed on Thanksgiving, while blue laws in Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island prohibit most stores and supermarkets from being open on the holiday in those states.One former Walmart store manager tells the story that after discovering a pro-union flyer in his store’s men’s room, he informed company headquarters and within 24 hours, an anti-union SWAT team flew to his store in a corporate jet. While shops historically closed for the November holiday, over the last decade or so more chains began to hold Thanksgiving hours - some opening at 6 a.m. The outbreak of the pandemic pushed these chains to close their doors on the holiday to limit crowding and spread out the holiday shopping season. "Our stores will be closed on Thanksgiving, but customers can still shop big savings on or through the Best Buy app," the company said in an Oct. Other big box chains are also staying shut on Thanksgiving - like Best Buy, which will extend its hours starting Oct. A small number of Target employees do work Thanksgiving to keep the gift-giving season running smoothly, the company added, but they receive holiday pay. To counter the usual crush on Black Friday, Target said it was spreading out savings over several weeks and introduced a holiday price match guarantee. "Thanksgiving store hours are one thing we won't 'get back to' when the pandemic finally subsides." "What started as a temporary measure driven by the pandemic is now our new standard," Target CEO Brian Cornell said in a statement last November.
To avoid having to open on Thanksgiving, Target said it plans to spread out savings over several weeks. Walmart, which has 5,335 locations in the US and brought in domestic sales of nearly $460 billion in 2021, joins Target, which announced last year that its 1,938 stores would be closed on Thanksgiving from now on. "All of our associates will be able to spend time with their loved ones this year," Furner said. While the pandemic has turned a corner in the US, Walmart CEO John Furner told the Today show's Savannah Guthrie on Wednesday that Walmart being open on Thanksgiving is "a thing of the past." The company first shuttered on the holiday in 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and closed again on Thanksgiving Day 2021. Walmart, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the US, will be closed on Thanksgiving.
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