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Why We Really Love Black Friday

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I think that Black Friday taking place on Thanksgiving in some stores is crazy. Thanksgiving is a day to stay home and have dinner with your family. There's a reason it's called Black Friday. Although research shows that most people look forward to and enjoy Black Friday, it doesn't mean they have to move the sales earlier and earlier so that the stores just get more money sooner. If you want to go out to get Black Friday sales, I think that the sales should only exist on Friday.

"The people who choose to partake in Black Friday will likely connect it with positive feelings," says Rebecca Greenfield in Why We Really Love Black Friday, According to Science. Many people like Black Friday and even consider it a Thanksgiving tradition, but this is not a good thing. Thanksgiving should be a day to stay home with family and think about how thankful you are for what you already have, not go out and buy more items. …show more content…

One year, at a Long Island Walmart on Black Friday, an employee even got trampled to death because shoppers were so eager to get to the discounts. Humans can get so wrapped up in these things that they don't even care about others or notice what's going on around them. "[the man] was only a low-paid temp helping out at Wal-Mart because it was Black Friday," said Peter S. Goodman in A Shopping Incident Captures the Moment.

So Black Friday should only exist on Black Friday, not start on Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving everyone should just stay home and be thankful for what they already have, and if they so wish go shopping the next day. On Black Friday people can become so selfish, and one Black Friday a man even got trampled to death by

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