The day after Thanksgiving will be a crazy day in retail. In some cases, Thanksgiving Day itself will be crazy, because more stores are toying with the idea of trying to cash in on those who aren’t too packed full of turkey and dressing to get up and shop after dinner.

But often those specials that look too good to be true are…at least from the standpoint of stores that stock only a handful of the items that are advertised as “door beater” sales, those ridiculously-big bargains that everyone knows going in that the stores won’t have many of.

Most stores refuse to issue rainchecks, which means if you’re not among the first five or six people through the door (or if you can’t run fast enough), then you’re probably out of luck.

That’s the background for this week’s question.

• First to play last week: Mika of Mika Salakka. Congratulations!

(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here is this week’s “Monday’s Morals” question. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your blog…but either way, leave a link to your site so that everyone else can visit! If you repost the questions on your site, you must link back to this site as the source. Permission is not granted to copy the questions to message boards for the purpose of having members answer and play along there.

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
Should stores advertising major deals on Christmas items be forced to stock a minimum number of those items, or be forced to issue rainchecks on them (provided the rainchecks are issued within a set time limit only during the sale itself)? Why or why not?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.