‘Black Friday’ now backing up into Thanksgiving Day for some

More major area retailers are opening their stores on Thanksgiving Day in a quest to snag more of the bounty brought by holiday shoppers. The holiday openings reflect a game of one-upmanship as retailers scramble to get as big a piece of the holiday shopping pie as they can. And it’s a big pie: Last year, day-after-Thanksgiving sales rose 6.6 percent to $11.4 billion, according to the Chicago ...