{"id":39715,"date":"2013-11-14T14:05:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/hey-look-big-retailers-that-appreciate-thanksgiving.html"},"modified":"2013-11-14T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:05:53","slug":"hey-look-big-retailers-that-appreciate-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/hey-look-big-retailers-that-appreciate-thanksgiving.html","title":{"rendered":"Hey, look, Big Retailers\u00a0that appreciate Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"
Inconceivable!<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet another reason to be a Costco member.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Costco, BJ’s Would Rather Have Their Employees Spend Thanksgiving At Home<\/a>
\n This year, everyone from Kmart to Macy’s to Staples will be celebrating the time-honored tradition of ruining Thanksgiving by throwing open their doors early to shoppers eager to flee the company o…\n <\/p>\n

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Inconceivable! Reshared post from +Les Jenkins Yet another reason to be a Costco member. Costco, BJ’s Would Rather Have Their Employees Spend Thanksgiving At Home This year, everyone from Kmart to Macy’s to Staples will be celebrating the time-honored tradition of ruining Thanksgiving by throwing open their doors early to shoppers eager to flee the … Continue reading “Hey, look, Big Retailers\u00a0that appreciate Thanksgiving”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38318,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/18\/attention-costco-shoppers.html","url_meta":{"origin":39715,"position":0},"title":"Attention, Costco shoppers","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Jul-13 1:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Making a note of this for myself and all my Costco-shopping family.Reshared post from +Les JenkinsAs a Costco shopper, this is relevant to my interests. 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