In recent years consumers have watched with turkey-stuffed anticipation as retailers inched their Black Friday sales earlier and earlier until eventually Black Friday became Black Thursday, forcing employees to leave their families and pumpkin pies behind in order to facilitate crowds on the biggest shopping weekend of the year. And yet now as we near the 2015 holiday shopping season, big box retailers such as REI and Costco and Home Depot have announced plans to not be open on the
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