Elizabeth's Blog

This week I read an article from AP News entitled “Target to keep stores closed on Thanksgiving for good” written by Anne D’Innocenzio. It talked about Target’s decision to permanently close their stores on Thanksgiving. In the past, their stores have opened for early Christmas shopping. However, with the pandemic changing that tradition they found that an extended shopping opportunity was beneficial to customers and employees. This allows them to have the whole day with their families. Another reason Target made this decision was because of how common online shopping is becoming.

I thought this article was written really well. It honestly followed the standard expectations for a story. The lead was short and had the necessary information needed to not read the entire article and still know what it was about. I also enjoyed the length of the article. I felt like if the journalist wanted to they could have gone on for a very long time with background information, however, they gave a nice amount of extra information about the topic. I also did not find myself asking any other questions. It gave exactly what I was expecting.

I chose to pick this story because I always found it interesting how popular “black Friday” shopping became on the day of thanksgiving and was curious to see the reasons why Target decided to do this.