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"Midnight store openings on Black Friday at retailers like Best Buy and Macy's are almost tradition. Many stores, including Walmart and Target, are opening Thursday evening, not long after people have finished putting away the leftover turkey.Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, which draws large crowds to its annual lighting ceremony on Thanksgiving night, has a growing number of stores that plan to be open for business for all those people.The lighting ceremony, now in its 83rd year, started with a single strand of lights.\"It's something that become part of families' Thanksgiving celebrations in Kansas City and has been passed down from generation to generation,\" said Kara Lowe of the Country Club Plaza.Ralph Liebetrau, the owner of Decori on the Plaza, said he plans to add the sound of cash registers to the annual tradition. For the first time, his store will be open from noon to 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.Liebetrau said he was hesitant about the decision.\"With places like Walmart opening up earlier that they did last year and Target and Best Buy and all joining in, you start hearing rumblings about protests and they're forcing it down our throats too early,\" he said.He said the opportunity was too big to pass up, especially with the crowds expected on the Plaza. He said Decori will do 70 percent of its yearly business between now and the end of the year.The Plaza said 11 stores will be open on Thanksgiving Day. Other stores plan to open earlier than normal on Friday, some as early as midnight."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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