In Anchorage, Best Buy will be open from 5pm to 1am. Target will open their doors at 6pm. Old Navy will open at 4pm. Walmart is open 24 hours.

“Thanksgiving has been under attack by retailers for years and remains a significant issue,” Chris Thompson wrote for Alaska Dispatch News last week. Thompson is a religious scholar who writes about his experiences at local churches. “Not long ago, almost every store, gas station and restaurant was closed for Thanksgiving. But the retail sector has taken aim at Thanksgiving with a vengeance.”

He voiced his belief that consumerism is “destroying our national holiday celebration of Thanksgiving[.]”

Whether or not this War on Thanksgiving is winning is subjective, but consumerism is unarguably reshaping a day intended to be spent paying thanks to the people in our lives; retooling it to become a day spent purchasing consumer goods for some, and more work for others. A far cry from the imaginary free exchange of food and good tidings scripted and set in the 1600s.

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