Black Friday shoppers rush to the mall for doorbuster deals

“And after we’re done here, we’re headed to another mall”.

Nordstrom’s parking lot was starting to get fairly full by the time I arrived, though that’s not necessarily unusual for the popular SouthPark destination. Families enjoy heading to the stores after storing the leftovers, they say.

Online sales in Britain are expected to exceed £1 billion (S$2.1 billion) for the first time ever, AFP said. I think it’s because most people got here last night when they opened.

Lines formed outside Miami Valley retail stores were small early today as shoppers began their searches for deals on Black Friday.

“Well we were a little concerned about the weather but weather couldn’t stop us from shopping”, shopper Kristi Shoemake said.

Carolina Place marketing manager Scott Anderson, for example, described mall traffic this year on Thanksgiving and Black Friday morning as “steady”.

Still, consumers plan to spend on average $584 on Black Friday compared with $501 in 2014, according to American Express’s spending & saving tracker.

And if you still want to score some deals here at the Concord Mills Mall with – or for – your loved ones, the mall will be staying open until 9:30 Friday night. “We lasted until probably around one in the morning”.

The footage shows a crowd of people running to get their hands on the kitchen appliance sending the boxes of flying as they crash into them.

Shoppers refused to halt their stampede when other staff attempted to intervene and help the injured 34-year-old, complaining that they had been waiting in the cold and were not willing to wait any longer.

Shoppers were lined up outside of the Monroeville Mall, which opened at 6 a.m.

Since Thursday evening – the official start of Black Friday – brawls among shoppers at different retail stores and shopping centers across the country have broken out, and videos of these scuffles have been uploaded online for the whole world to see.

The holiday season is officially underway as stores and shopping malls are swamped with customers searching for those Black Friday bargains.