Target and Tanger stayed open all night.
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They said waking up that early was worth it. “We had quite a bit of fun, we got to experiment with makeup and it wasn’t crowded”, Romero said. It does not mean that custom of reaching early for the annual Black Friday sales has ended, it was still going strong.
Meanwhile, Kmart has its doors opened to shoppers until 10 p.m. Their stores opened at 6 a.m. Thursday.
At the Queens Center Mall, half of the stores opened at 6 p.m. Thursday, and all stores were open by 8 a.m. Friday. “It was about 151 people in line”, said manager Luis Bauelos.
When predicting the entire holiday shopping season, Adobe estimates that some $83 billion will be spent online, but most of it will be on a slim set of items – 67% of sales will be devoted to just 1% of products, primarily electronics (60%) and gift cards (10%). Other shoppers stuck to toys. “There’s a lot of innings left to play in this game”.
Lockhart’s crews inside were ready.
What not to buy on Black Friday: Wait! She’d already had turkey and all the trimmings with her son and his wife. “I got a Barbie”.
Kohl’s and Kmart will keep their doors open until midnight, depending on location, for Black Friday, while Toys ‘R Us and Babies ‘R Us are shutting down at 11. Her husband, Hector, was at Wal-Mart waiting for its sales to start.
“If there’s something we need, we’ll buy it”, Mr. Patel said, adding that they weren’t necessarily motivated by price.
Other retail chains, such as clothing chains H&M and T.J. Maxx, also said they would remain closed on Thanksgiving.
Five hours before the so-called doorbuster deals at Walmart, a slow trickle of shoppers, mostly in pairs or shopping alone, picked up last minute groceries for Thanksgiving dinners at the store here.
Why fight with crowds on Friday when you can shop from your office on Monday or, even, the couch on Sunday night? “The holiday is unequivocally reserved for family”, Rosenthal says.
“We’ve planned this event for more than a year”.
But it’s something businesses do for their customers, Birdwell said. Until she arrived at the Target near her home and found out the flat screen TVs she had her eye on were sold out nearly immediately after the store opened at 6 p.m.
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Now that the Internet can bring you the same bargains you can find by beating crowds in the stores, you can choose which method you want to do your shopping – online or in person. “And what’s also good is that the security people here are very organized”, said Kevin Shou, 41, with his wife and three kids from Hoboken.
