
Midnight Openings - do you like them or not?
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Posted Nov 4, 2011 - 12:31 pm
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Posted Nov 4, 2011 - 1:17 pm
Here is what the Best Buy CEO had to say today about the midnight openings
"I feel terrible because it impacts, it'll change some Thanksgiving plans for some of our employees," Dunn conceded. "...I know that the decision has been a bit controversial with some of our folks, but the truth of the matter is, the customers will be out there, lined up, for that midnight opening."
I love how the say screw the little guy if we make more money, he should have just kept his mouth shut

The more I think of it the more I'm liking being done by 4-5 instead of being out by then, not sure how it'll happen with all my online shopping but we'll see.
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Posted Nov 6, 2011 - 6:30 am

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Posted Nov 6, 2011 - 8:53 am
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Posted Nov 6, 2011 - 7:34 pm
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Posted Nov 6, 2011 - 8:27 pm
Here is a sample of the comments left on Best Buys Facebook page about the 12am opening.
That's right, demonize the customer base that makes it possible for you to earn an income! These kids have no earthly idea how wrong they are and how misdirected their comments are. If I were the CEO, I would take these comments as a portend to his future tenure in the company. Such disloyal employees are not what Best Buy needs when their future does not look so good. Some of these kids don't even realize that they are held accountable for negative comments they make against the company and I would venture to say that a few of them will silently be hauled up to HR after Black Friday and given their pink slips.
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Posted Nov 6, 2011 - 8:45 pm
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Posted Nov 7, 2011 - 12:06 am
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Posted Nov 7, 2011 - 2:20 am
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Posted Nov 7, 2011 - 9:13 am
While there are some professions that have to work to keep us safe, etc. retail is not one of them. Hospitals, police, etc. have to be open on Christmas too, would that make it ok for retail stores to be open, just to get that last extra dollar?
I understand what you are saying, but let’s not get to crazy. Most people are working for a check not to keep us safe. They went to school or took training fully aware that this is what they have signed up for. Just as someone in retail has. Thos same people that are trying to keep us safe as charging way more than any of those retail store. Go to the hospital and you will see. 2 Tylenols for $40.00. -- - - GET REAL ---.If some of the stores was open on Christmas than so be it. They might not be there trying to get that last dollar. They might just be open for that last gift you need to get or for that person that just showed up and you did not have anything for them. Take some of the drug stores they are open but the pharmacy is closed on Christmas, why because they understand people will need something. I do not have to like it or agree with it. I am just merely stating facts.

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Posted Nov 9, 2011 - 7:03 am
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Posted Nov 9, 2011 - 12:04 pm
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Posted Nov 9, 2011 - 12:43 pm
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Posted Nov 9, 2011 - 1:05 pm
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Posted Nov 9, 2011 - 3:53 pm
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Posted Nov 9, 2011 - 10:14 pm
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Posted Nov 10, 2011 - 12:15 am
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Posted Nov 10, 2011 - 1:55 am
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Posted Nov 10, 2011 - 6:38 pm
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Posted Nov 10, 2011 - 9:39 pm
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Posted Nov 11, 2011 - 10:23 am
http://finance.yahoo...-123025036.html
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Posted Nov 11, 2011 - 10:35 am
http://finance.yahoo...-123025036.html
Rebecca
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
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Posted Nov 11, 2011 - 10:39 am

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Posted Nov 11, 2011 - 10:47 am
Good article, and I liked JC Penneys responce: “We wanted to give our associates Thanksgiving Day to spend with their families,” said Bill Gentner, senior vice president for marketing. Good for them!Apparently enough people don't like the Thursday shopping this year that it's getting the attention of the media....
http://finance.yahoo...-123025036.html
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Posted Nov 11, 2011 - 11:41 am
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Posted Nov 12, 2011 - 9:09 am
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Posted Nov 12, 2011 - 10:03 am
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Posted Nov 16, 2011 - 7:54 pm
I am so against midnight openings. Forget Black Friday, now it is going to be Black Thursday. And so much for Thanksgiving. For me it almost ruins Black Friday. I have been Black Friday shopping for 15 years and this is the most disheartening thing that has ever happened in all my years of BF shopping.
I agree. It used to be fun shopping at 6am. Too much greed going on. I say this is the last year for retailers opening at midnight.
Many retail workers know they're working on early Black Friday morning. But not right on the dot. Not even that, I'm sure most of them arrive earlier than that.
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