Move Over Tom, Holiday Shopping Starts on Turkey Day

Walking down 5th Avenue last night, we passed two stores that said they were going to be open on Thanksgiving. Isn’t Thanksgiving Day supposed to be one in which we spend hours watching oversized balloons float by Macy’s, stuffing our faces in the company of family and friends, cheering for our favorite oversized behemoths on the football field and eventually falling into a tryptophan induced stupor?

The extended hours stretch far beyond South Slope. Target, Toys R Us, Gap and a long list of others will be jumping on the Thanksgiving Day bandwagon this year.

We’ve reported how Santa has been encroaching on Turkey Day for weeks now, and it almost seems as if Thanksgiving has been replaced by Black Friday as the official start of the holiday season. The way we’re headed, Thanksgiving meals will eventually consist of fast food snagged on the way to Woodbury Common.

What do you think, South Slope? Are the Thanksgiving sales too tempting to pass up, or do the extended hours just add to the overly commercialized holiday season?