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Denver, Colo., Nov 22, 2012 \/ 06:10 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The expansion of Thanksgiving weekend shopping to the holiday itself has raised concerns among both workers and clergy who worry that the change puts family time at risk.<\/p>\n

\tFather Sinclair Oubre, Spiritual Moderator of the Texas-based Catholic Labor Network, said the store openings are a \u201cdisturbing trend\u201d that is \u201can assault on the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe have almost completed the evolutionary process of having two classes of workers: those who get holidays off, and can stay with their families, and those who are forced to work, so that those who have holidays off won't have to stay with their families,\u201d Fr. Oubre said.<\/p>\n

\tRetailers such as Sears, Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, Toys \u201cR\u201d Us and Gap are increasingly opening their stores on Thanksgiving Day. The following day, known as Black Friday, is one of the most profitable shopping days of the year.<\/p>\n

\tBusiness analysts cite increased competition from internet shopping and some customers\u2019 desires to shop on Thanksgiving as motives to open stores on what is traditionally a day off, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

\tIn 2011, retailers who opened on Thanksgiving Day earned 22 percent more over the Thanksgiving Day weekend.<\/p>\n

\tTwo popular internet petitions on the Change.org website are protesting the changes.<\/p>\n

\tCasey St. Clair, a Target employee of six years from Corona, Calif., organized one petition to \u201csave Thanksgiving\u201d that now has over 370,000 signatures.<\/p>\n

\tShe said Thanksgiving Day off \u201creally does give me that one day to relax and visit family I otherwise have no time to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIntroducing more business hours on the evening of Thanksgiving Day means that employees need to arrive hours before the store opens, she explained.<\/p>\n

\tCardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York criticized the new phenomenon of Thanksgiving Day shopping in a Nov. 20 essay in the New York Post.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe stores, we hear, will open on Thanksgiving. Isn\u2019t that a sign of progress and liberation?\u201d he asked. \u201cSorry, but no \u2014 it\u2019s a sign of a further descent into a highly privatized, impersonal, keep-people-at-a-distance culture, one that values having stuff and doing things over just being with people whom we love, cherish and appreciate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe cardinal said he will pray this Thanksgiving that God preserve \u201ca culture where personal friendship, genuine conversation and family unity can be a high priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI\u2019ll beg God to keep those values constant in our society,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy? Because I\u2019m fearful they\u2019re disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Denver, Colo., Nov 22, 2012 \/ 06:10 am (CNA\/EWTN News).- The expansion of Thanksgiving weekend shopping to the holiday itself has raised concerns among both workers and clergy who worry that the change puts family time at risk.<\/p>\n

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