And a Happy New Year!!!!

If I sat down, I could probably tell you where I was for every New Year's Eve since I could remember. Some of my favorites involved my Father and a gun. Before you start having visions of Appalachia and Deliverance let me explain that it was my Father's tradition to ring in the New Year by shooting one of his many shotguns into the air. Having been raised in Kentucky, it was just something that he did every year, and I am certain that his neighbors loved him for it. At any rate, some of those years that I recall, I spent ringing in the New Year while on the clock at the happiest Haven for retail. I have asked this before, but what earthly purpose does it serve Walmart to be open on New Year's Eve? I have been in the store many many times on New Years Eve, and the business was not so overwhelming that it would have been missed. Why won't Walmart close its doors on the Major Holidays and let its associates spend it with their families? Think of all the good will that this would create. Think of all the wonderful press that this could garner for them. Think it will ever happen? Don't hold your breath. For whatever reason that it uses, Walmart refuses to consider the families of the associates when it is making schedules. There is nothing to be lost and so many things to be gained if Walmart would just let go of the greed and close its doors on major Holidays. I hope that they read this or have it forwarded to them. Think it over Walmart, the time that you let your associates spend with their families on the Holidays would be priceless time that would mean the world to them and their loved ones. You'll thank me later.