Stores Open On Thanksgiving 2010: Walmart, Sears And More (HOURS)

Last year, a handful of stores were open on Thanksgiving Day and even more stores plan to open their doors on Thanksgiving 2010.

Among them will be Sears, opening on Thanksgiving for the first time in the retailer's history, and Toys 'R' Us, as well as stores like Walmart which also remained open last year.

"Thanksgiving is not as sanctified a day as it was even a few years ago," author Thomas Hine told USA Today.

Here's what you can expect to find open on Thanksgiving Day 2010:

Sears plans to be open from 7 a.m. to Noon on Thanksgiving, a first for the company in its more than 100 years of existence.

Toys 'R' Us has decided to open nationwide at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving, the earliest in its history.

Kmart stores are set to open 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day and will be open until 9 p.m.

Walmart Supercenter stores will be open 24 hours on Thanksgiving this year, with most regular Walmart stores opening midnight Thanksgiving night.

Gap Inc., Banana Republic and Old Navy were among the first stores to ever offer Thanksgiving hours a few years ago, and they'll be open again this year, with most locations opening around 8 a.m.

"Our customers appreciated the option of shopping on Thanksgiving Day," said Gap spokeswoman Louise Callagy.

For those who prefer to shop online, Walmart.com, Target.com, Staples.com, and other retailers are offering special deals on Thanksgiving 2010.

If you're doing your shopping in person, especially if you're considering to shop on Black Friday, you won't want to miss our handy guide of 10 tips for holiday shoppers.

Comments

[Skepticism Are US]

09:34 PM on 11/27/2010

Corporate Greed

I am sure that the employees of these greedy companies where glad to have the money. Because they are paid so little.

Also I bet these companies made record revenues which they trickled down to the sum of ...nothing!

[nicesharing]

08:08 AM on 11/26/2010

Check out http://bargainscent.com for easiest way to search online deals on black friday.

[LastTexasRose]

10:17 PM on 11/25/2010

Strangely enough Autozone was open and quite a few people were in there shopping

[OldTulsan]

07:25 PM on 11/25/2010

Look for falling wages...

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/24-2
Firms See Long-Sought Goal in Sight: Major Pay Cuts | CommonDreams.org

"...Mercury Marine, Harley-Davidson and Kohler have been pursuing a more advanced form of what many other firms have achieved. For example, new workers at GM and Chrysler are making just $14.50 an hour for grueling work on the assemblyline. Caterpillar also has imposed a two-tier wage system after long-running wars with the UAW in the 1990s, as has Delphi.

Expect the downward wage spiral to continue under relentless pressure from corporations who see an endless surplus army of labor with 9.6% unemployment and benefits running out for two million in Deember.

For example, "Toyota 's goal has become $12.64 an hour, the median wage for comparable manufacturing in Kentucky, where it has its largest plant, or $10.79 in Alabama, where it is building a new plant," reports UC-Berkeley Prof. Harley Shaiken, a long-time scholar on labor issues and the auto industry..."

[LastTexasRose]

10:20 PM on 11/25/2010

If the T-party got their way, wages would get even lower if states could set their own minimum wage

[cyoohoos]

07:09 PM on 11/25/2010

It's funny how people are complaining yet movie theaters are always open on Thanksgiving day. Have been for years. The have employees too

[Mikeeee]

05:19 PM on 11/25/2010

So nice for the staff of these stores to be working instead of at home with their families. I would like to thank all of you who will shop at these stores today and hope you remember when you're doing it, that "YOU" are the reason these people are not at home celebrating the day.
Happy Thanksgiving indeed.

[JStading]

05:55 PM on 11/25/2010

I'm not the reason they aren't at home - they are.  If they didn't get pregnant at 15, they wouldn't be doing these jobs as adults.  If I want a video game on Thanksgiving, I want to go somewhere that's open to get it.  Don't like it, don't work there.

[grouseless54]

06:31 PM on 11/25/2010

Dear JStading:
So, how do you account for the men working low end retail? Did they get pregnant at 15?

[LastTexasRose]

10:22 PM on 11/25/2010

I think the lipton bags stapled to your hat are blinding you to basic human emotions like caring

[lovebirdsongs]

06:17 PM on 11/25/2010

I am pretty sure a large portion of these workers are probably seasonal workers. Acknowledging the fact they will be working on holidays and such. And a lot of these people are probably paid time and a half since it's a holiday. And just for the record just because "YOU" have family and celebrate Thanksgiving does not mean every single person in our country does. Personally I'd rather be at work right now earning time and a half because I am a college student in need of money, and this is a day I could really use the extra pay. But where I work isn't open Thanksgiving..Please bare in my mind, not everyone is old fashion and traditional with large families. Some people are single and have only a couple of relatives who don't live near them. I don't think it's fair to make those single people who'd rather spend their day off browsing for some sales or working for extra pay, feel bad.
Oh and some people actually have a large portion of Native American bloodline in them and don't really appreciate the way Thanksgiving is painted to people. It shows the Native Americans and the Pilgrims having a lovely feast and smiling. Too bad they forget to mention the fact that 200 years later the "Indian Removal Act" was passed and a whole race wiped out.

[alanposting]

05:18 PM on 11/25/2010

Great, walmart destroyed all of our small towns, now they are destroying Thanksgiving....is there no end to their greed?

[DFD CPA]

10:48 AM on 11/28/2010

no.

[Davey Johnson]

05:17 PM on 11/25/2010

Live to shop, shop to live. Welcome to the New American Zombie. Same as the Old American Zombie. Except worse.

[cyoohoos]

07:07 PM on 11/25/2010

What's the difference between this and the mindless consumption of copious amounts of food and football? Is that also an American Zombie

[mccena]

04:01 PM on 11/25/2010

The best way to enjoy Thanksgiving 2010 is going to attend the Thanksgiving Macy's 2010
Day Parade and then check the nearest store and start shopping. The show this shopping season starts today and ends on Cyber Monday, November 29. Stores Open On Thanksgiving 2010 Complete List
http://usspost.com/stores-open-on-thanksgiving-2010-complete-list-23172/

[Mikeeee]

05:20 PM on 11/25/2010

Disgusting and selfish.

[rosal]

03:02 PM on 11/25/2010

I feel sad for the employees of these stores, I used to work for a Casino and I never had any Holiday off, that made me sad. I guess in this day and age it's better to have a job, even if you have to work Holidays.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

[jubes]

05:03 PM on 11/25/2010

Me too. I hate knowing that some people have to work on Thanksgiving Day. I always thought that the people who owned or managed the stores should work too. But, you're right - in these times, a job is a good thing.

[E4B32787]

12:36 AM on 11/26/2010

I used to work many a Thanksgiving. I maintained routers and computers, not involved in sales. I got paid for the holiday, and time and a half for actually working. In the case of infrastructure, it has to be kept running, holiday, or no holiday.

I don't know what the deal is in retail, so I don't shop on Thanksgiving. I don't want to be a part of requiring someone to work that doesn't want to.

I'd like to hear that these stores are making it worth the employees while to work, and that they're getting volunteers - then, I'd actually go out and shop.

[AKJM]

01:47 PM on 11/25/2010

BUY AMERICAN

[logicanada]

03:45 PM on 11/25/2010

Buy American what? I'm not in the market for either weapons or heavy equipment.

[AKJM]

03:53 PM on 11/25/2010

Carhart, New Balence-- buy used. Point is try to do your part.

[OldTulsan]

11:16 PM on 11/25/2010

It's not always possible to "Buy American"...

http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/10/0518/chinadrugs.html
You Don't Know Where Your Drugs Come From And Neither Does The FDA; U.S. Imports 90 Percent Of Its Antibiotics (And Vitamin A) From China

"...The United States needs two tons of heparin per month. Seventy percent of that is sourced from China, says the study. Tainted Chinese heparin (made from pig intestines and used as a blood thinner) supplied to Baxter International caused the death of 81 Americans in early 2008. After a fall-off of heparin exports in 2008, "the situation has changed in 2009," says the study. "Heparin exports for the first quarter of 2009 increased 155 percent compared to the first quarter of 2008. The price of heparin also doubled (to $4,354 per kilogram) in the first quarter of 2009."

China accounted for 61 percent of all ibuprofen sold into the U.S. market in 2008, with its product used in Advil, Aleve and Motrin, among others. More than 90 percent of the tetracycline supplied to the United States and used in most antibiotics is now supplied from China..."

[AKJM]

07:56 AM on 11/26/2010

The info you cite on heparin plus the other special additives found in Chinese imports is reason to buy American and insist on American made medicines.
There are web sites that offer links to American made goods. The toys are sure to be lead free.

[SC341]

06:09 AM on 11/27/2010

I just read that article you linked to and it's shocking.

[dps2]

01:40 PM on 11/25/2010

hey if you people didn't patronize these stores on holidays, then they wouldn't be open. so stop the pity for those poor workers who have to work. they wouldn't have to if you stayed home.

[Mikeeee]

05:20 PM on 11/25/2010

Spot on!

[JStading]

05:51 PM on 11/25/2010

Whaaaa! If they don't like it, they should get better jobs and go out and get educated.

As an aside, when I worked retail in high school, I loved the Thanksgiving-Christmas time.  Why? Massive paychecks, huge overtime, and everyone was generally thankful if you just showed up.  It's not as bad as you think.

[skiptomylou]

11:24 PM on 11/25/2010

I work retail (specialty childrens store) and am educated. Don't know how long ago you worked retail but these days there is no such thing as holiday pay (time and a half) in most stores. Forget about the holiday paid day off unless you work for a department store full time. Also, most specialty stores no longer have full time hourly associates so there are no benefits and no overtime. Except for the mgr and assistant no employee is allowed to work more than 20 hrs a week. We enjoy the busy season and the extra hours we get this time of year but we also enjoy time with out families and friends. Our work week includes most Saturdays and Sundays.

[concrete things]

05:23 AM on 11/26/2010

Yeah, "go out and get educated." They probably live in a country where higher education is available to all. Oh no wait, they live in the US. Nevermind.

[bipolarcat452]

01:02 PM on 11/25/2010

To John Dillinger and (in the) hope he is still alive. Thanksgiving Day November 28 1986" - W.S. Burroughs

"Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shat out through wholesome American guts. Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison. Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger. Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot. Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes. Thanks for the American dream, To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for the KKK. For n---er-killin' lawmen, feelin' their notches. For decent church-goin' women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces. Thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers. Thanks for laboratory AIDS. Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs. Thanks for a country where
nobody's allowed to mind their own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all the memories -- all right let's see your arms! You always were a headache and you always were a bore. Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams."

[bipolarcat452]

12:57 PM on 11/25/2010

William S. Burroughs epic Thanksgiving Day Prayer was and remains so on target. Truly a man ahead of his time.

[Vegan Girl]

12:24 PM on 11/25/2010

Walmart is selling stuff made outside the US. Outsourcing production jobs brings down the prices, more profit to be made.... Except, people will not be able to buy anything without a decent job. DUUUHHHH! Corporations are for short term profit they actually destroy their own future. (In my eyes, a marriage of stupid and cruel.) I think this will visit retailers in this deepression.

[SC341]

06:55 AM on 11/27/2010

http://www.hereandnow.org/media-player?url=http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/02/10/rundown-210-2/&title=Why%20Is%20Nothing%20Made%20In%20America%20Anymore?&segment=2&pubdate=2010-02-10

http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/02/10/rundown-210-2#2

If you want to know where all the jobs are follow the above links.

[Skepticism Are US]

10:19 PM on 11/27/2010

When we are no longer making a living wage (see http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/24-2 ) and cannot afford to shop at discount stores. Corporations will just pick up and move to the countries where they gave away our jobs.

But the joke is on them... all the greedy corporations … there are problems with the middle class disappearing all over the world. All over the world corporations are stripping the middle class of jobs and slamming them down to the poorest class.

SO then the only people who will have money will be the rich.

The rich will not be shopping at Walllmart!!!

[Vegan Girl]

10:26 PM on 11/27/2010

EEExactly! Unfortunately (I am paraphrasing Chomsky) the long-term welfare of the company, human compassion, ethics, or even the survival of humankind is just an "externality" for the mighty corporation. How suicidally insane is that?