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Macy's may break tradition and open doors on Thanksgiving

October 14, 2013

For the first time in Macy's 155-year history, certain store locations will open for business at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Five employees at Macy's flagship store in Chicago told the Sun-Times that their bosses had told them to be prepared to work that night; one employee said she received a memo Thursday stating the store would open on Thanksgiving at 8 p.m.

A Macy's spokeswoman in New York would neither confirm nor deny reports of the department store's plan to join the Christmas creep, saying the store had not yet announced its holiday hours.

For the past two years, Macy's has opened its 800 stores at midnight for a jump on Black Friday, competing with retailers such as Walmart, Gap, Kmart, Sears, Old Navy, Target and Toys R Us that opened for at least some of Thanksgiving day.

Earlier this month, Macy's announced plans to hire 83,000 workers for the holiday season, an increase of 3.8 percent from last year.

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