She explains that it is a family tradition to go Black Friday shopping.
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At the Monroeville Mall, people were waiting in lines outside stores at 6 a.m.
“It’s the excitement of the season”. Before you fight the crowds to plunk down your hard-earned cash, make sure that a Black Friday deal is really a deal. “We want to celebrate Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving”, McVittie said.
Just after dawn Friday, there were open aisles of parking spaces at Inland shopping malls and thin crowds making the early-morning rounds. That would mark the highest figure in 14 years.
In response, Wal-Mart and Target made all deals available later in the stores online Thanksgiving morning. “I can’t believe everyone is up and shopping at 4:30 a.m”.
Even in the morning, the food court was packed with those eating Chick-fil-A, pizza and whatever else was being sold.
Rosales and her daughter started shopping at 4am Friday and showed no sign of stopping. “It’s just fun. We don’t have a list we just look and find the deals”. She said on average she got about 40 percent to 50 percent off but she was looking for more. “I’m dropping these off in the trunk, and coming right back”, said Nguyen on Thursday night.
“And, they prepped beforehand – more than 25 million customers accessed store maps and the circular through our online and mobile tools for Black Friday”, says Bratspies.
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It is not clear what had prompted the two to begin fighting however one woman who said she had been in a Louisiana Walmart, captured chaotic moments on her video when people were fighting over some towels that had been loaded onto carts that had discounts. Getting the best deals on electronics, toys, and whatever else they could get their hands on. “It was for $170, and I got it for $120”. Some said they got the mall around midnight, while others waited until around 5 a.m. before arriving. But it’s expected that more than three times the number of people who shopped on Thanksgiving will venture out to shop on the day after the holiday known as Black Friday. AJ noted that “before I was born, they invented this holiday because businesses needed an excuse to get people Christmas shopping early”.
