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Poll: Should Stores Be Open on Thanksgiving?

Target employee starts petition effort on Change.org.

More than 187,000 have signed a petition started by a Nebraska Target employee on Change.org to "save Thanksgiving" by having Black Friday sales start at 5 a.m. rather than at midnight.

Anthony Hardwick said a midnight opening robs employees of time off with their families on Thanksgiving.

That started 26 other campaigns on Change.org to get , , and other stores to change their midnight openings, said Benjamin Joffe-Walt, director of communications for Change.org.

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