China News Service, November 30th. According to a report by Radio France Internationale on the 29th, there is no Thanksgiving Day in any year like 2021, which makes Americans full of anticipation. Many people have not been with their relatives far away in the past two years due to the new crown epidemic. Meet; however, there is no Thanksgiving year that makes Americans frustrated and panic like 2021. They are facing a triple haze during the holiday: expensive prices, severe COVID-19, and violent robbery at any time.

On November 16, local time, a car passed by a gas station in San Mateo County, California, USA.

According to data from the American Automobile Association, gasoline prices in California hit a record high that day, and the average price of regular gasoline per gallon soared to $4.687, ranking first among all states in the United States.

This is the third consecutive day that California has broken oil price records.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan

　　According to the report, the United States is experiencing inflation that has never been seen in 30 years when Thanksgiving Day arrives: this year a 16-pound turkey is asking for $23.99, which is 24% higher than the price in 2020; a family Thanksgiving meal It costs about $53.31, which is $6.41 more than the average of $46.9 in 2020.

　　The US Federal Department of Labor announced before Thanksgiving that the consumer price index has risen by 6.2% in the past 12 months, food prices have risen by 5.4%, and the prices of meat, poultry, fish, and eggs have risen by an average of 11.9%.

　　Data from Allianz Research (Allianz) shows that compared with 2020, on Black Friday 2021, prices of toys, clothing, electrical appliances, etc. will increase by 5% to 17%.

The report quoted the "Wall Street Journal" as saying that many stores are closed for Thanksgiving this year, and major retailers such as Wal-Mart no longer promote the "open door" event.

Due to the increase in the price of goods, the Skyview Mall in Flushing, New York did not see any crowds during the "Black Friday", and customers lamented that it was not as lively as usual on weekends.

　　At the same time, the average US energy price rose by 30% during Thanksgiving, and gasoline was even as high as 49.6%.

Regular unleaded gasoline has risen to $3.41 a gallon, which is more than 60% higher than that of Thanksgiving in 2020, and regular gasoline at gas stations in California generally reaches about $5 per gallon.

The average round-trip ticket for inland flights is approximately US$293, an increase of US$48 over 2020; the average cost of car rental has increased by 66% compared to last year.

　　The American Automobile Association (AAA) estimates that during Thanksgiving, 53.4 million people in the United States travel by car or by plane, and they will bear much higher travel costs than in 2020.

　　In addition, health experts pointed out that Americans will still face a severe new crown epidemic on Thanksgiving 2021. Although nearly 200 million people have been vaccinated across the country, there are still close to 100,000 new cases nationwide every day.

Relatives and friends who have not been reunited for two years due to the new crown epidemic had hoped to gather together on Thanksgiving this year, but since the beginning of winter, the epidemic has made a comeback.

News on November 26, 2021, a Thanksgiving Day parade was held in New York, USA, and police officers were carrying guns on duty along the way.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan

　　The Associated Press reported that a 57-year-old grandmother in Los Angeles said that she used to organize large-scale thanksgiving dinners and inviting friends and relatives on Thanksgiving every year. This year she has reduced the scale. Thanksgiving dinner parties are limited to immediate family members, her husband, children, and grandchildren. NS.

　　This year's Thanksgiving, Americans will also face a "frightening problem", that is, large-scale robberies and even murders in shopping areas.

A few days before "Black Friday", many shops in the San Francisco Bay Area were robbed in advance.

　　On the night of November 19, a LV brand-name bag store was robbed; on the night of the 20th, a Nordstrom store was ransacked by 80 people driving 25 cars; on the night of the 21st, about 40 people robbed Hayward Shopping center (Southland) store; the robbers also robbed the camera of a local TV reporter interviewing Thanksgiving Day on the 24th and killed the security guard hired by the TV station.

　　During Thanksgiving, the windows of some shops in Union Square in downtown San Francisco were sealed with wooden boards, and there were no more crowds queuing into the shops.

　　Several robberies occurred in Los Angeles on Black Friday.

Four suspects were arrested in the high-end residential area of ​​Beverly Hills; in Canoga Park Mall, the robbers stole designer bags; and a store selling Rolex watches on Melrose Avenue in the fashionable district was ransacked.

　　Mass robberies spread from California to other states in the United States. On Black Friday, North Carolina and Washington state malls broke out with gun robberies. The two incidents injured a total of 7 people; Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin and other states also experienced mall robberies one after another. case.

　　Statistics show that around Thanksgiving, thefts in central San Francisco increased by 88% compared with the same period in 2020, homicides in Los Angeles increased by 17.3%, traffic crimes in New York increased by 141%, and murder and sexual crimes in Chicago increased by 133%. And 81%.

　　Corie Berry, chief operating officer of Best Buy, a large home appliance chain, sighed after his store was robbed: How did violent robbery become so severe?