I temped for the Postal service in a warehouse for the Holidays and on Christmas Eve I stayed until after 3 in the morning. Why? Time and a half, Babbie.
It sucks, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Iggy is right though, this whole Black Friday nonsense was bad enough a few years ago and it's really gotten out of hand now, some stores starting at 6 pm on Thanksgiving. It's really just a microcosm of what's wrong with a large segment of our country and statement of how wrapped up into commercialism people are nowadays...but that's an argument for another thread.