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In Tribune columnist Steve Chapman’s “How the consumer became king; Capitalism empowers ordinary people” (Commentary, Nov. 29), he claims that the department stores open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day because the consumer demands it.
What if every one of these shopaholic, bargain-binging, discount-obsessed shoppers had an employer who said that, instead of the traditional four-day weekend for Thanksgiving, the shoppers needed to come to work at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving night, just like the minimum-wage workers who labor at Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target, etc.?
I can hear the crying now.
— Brad Stubitsch, Chicago
