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In reply to the discussion: Target stores are open until 10 pm on Christmas Eve? [View all]TexasBushwhacker
(20,172 posts)49. I have to wonder how much business they get in the evening though
I worked in retail for 13 years in the 70s and 80s. Working Christmas Eve was a given, but we closed at 6 pm. Frankly, it was usually a pretty normal day sales wise. Last minute shopping is usually done the last weekend before Christmas, which is very busy, not on Christmas Eve. By CE, people are getting together with their families or traveling. I wonder how much business they really do, or if they are just getting the store straightened up for the post Christmas sales.
I actually enjoyed working that day. They always had a nice lunch for us in the break room.
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I'll be darned. I didn't think they were around here - but it looks like you're right.
Ms. Toad
Dec 2018
#29
So are airports, hospitals, convenience stores, movie theaters, etc, etc, etc
USALiberal
Dec 2018
#4
Thanks! My son worked today and tomorrow. He needs to get his mom something.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2018
#22
My family celebrates Christmas Day, my Ex's on Christmas Eve. Makes celebrating easy.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2018
#20
Explain, please, why non-Christians should not be able to shop on Christian holidays.
WillowTree
Dec 2018
#23
My ex husband was a bartender at a big hotel full of tourists. The guests certainly expected...
Hekate
Dec 2018
#36
If you work retail, are a nurse or other hospital based health worker,
PoindexterOglethorpe
Dec 2018
#35
Well, according to this list, these stores will all be open until 10 pm on Christmas Eve:
Silver Gaia
Dec 2018
#37
I worked in a Nursing home during college. Have relatives who are nurses.
LakeSuperiorView
Dec 2018
#39
This is too simple: If people didn't shop and buy things, the stores would not be open.
elocs
Dec 2018
#47
Hospitals, prisons, airports (and all stores within them) are open on every holiday.
cwydro
Dec 2018
#48
Emergency medical services, police, fire, etc. are a different animal than department stores IMHO.
jalan48
Dec 2018
#63
It's true some businesses are open on Christmas and have been for decades. I just don't
jalan48
Dec 2018
#67
Our misplaced priorities will be exposed for all the world to see. Those poor Americans!
jalan48
Dec 2018
#77
Thank goodness; just ran out to Target for the last two bags of chestnuts...
brooklynite
Dec 2018
#70