Walgreen’s, for example, will just keep open its 24-hour stores and pharmacies. CVS likewise may have reduced hours at some of its locations. Rite Aid will be closed Thanksgiving and reopen on Black Friday. Shoppers should check the hours at their nearest location.

Wegmans has nine New Jersey locations: Bridgewater, Cherry Hill, Hanover, Manalapan, Montvale, Mt. Laurel, Ocean, Princeton and Woodbridge. All spots will close on Thanksgiving at 4 p.m. and reopen their doors Friday at 6 a.m.

It was used by Philadelphia police to describe the chaos that often took place in the city the day after Thanksgiving. Many suburbanites would come to Philadelphia to do their holiday shopping, while others traveled to the city for the annual Army-Navy football game,