Recently, all businesses in Denton have been putting up posters promoting their Thanksgiving events and promotions. In the small Deli, they offer a platter of four large sandwiches for fifty bucks. The local small grocery shop is giving away mystery grocery bags for a hundred dollars, which contain beans, corn bread, and frozen turkey. In one of the local coffee shops, they are offering a small coffee with a muffin, and you get to take a small bag of weed. This is happening because of the flight shortages airports are facing, and local businesses know that many students will be stuck in Denton for Thanksgiving break.
The coffee shop owner wanted to give the students a little taste of home, especially to ease the pain for those who care about Thanksgiving. And for those who do not care for it, she says, “The ingrates should still enjoy the free muffin.” The Deli and grocery shop owner mentioned to me that they are hoping to make their largest profit during the Thanksgiving break. The deli owner figured that if the students could live off hoagies for a large part of their semester, why not keep at it for Thanksgiving too? To make it worthwhile, the sandwich has fried turkey and cranberry sauce. The grocery shop owner knows that many students cannot cook, so why not take advantage of selling off what does not sell well in general? All bags contain turkey, cornbread, rice, a salad, canned beans, canned corn, bottles of water, and spice it up for the lady customers, tampons.
The airline industry may lose millions of dollars this Thanksgiving, but at least local businesses can take that unwanted money.
