Shoppers flock to stores for Black Friday

“That’s what gets me in the spirit”, Gray said.

Nationwide, the National Retail Federation expected about 30 million to shop on Thanksgiving, compared with 99.7 million on Black Friday.

“Now we’re on our way to Walmart to scrape up the crumbs and see if anything is left”, Mr. Bruce said.

Page load times for the United Kingdom retailer exceeded 10 seconds, in stark contrast to the 0.5 second page load time of its competitor Amazon, and beyond the two-second threshold which some analysts say makes consumers impatient and more likely to give up on a purchase.

While Thanksgiving day shoppers were out in the lakes area, Black Friday still appeared to reign supreme for many shoppers.

The NRF’s survey revealed shoppers spent $299.60 on average online or in stores. ChannelAdvisor, which is tracking the five key cyber sale days, provided data that highlighted key fluctuations from a year ago. JC Penney opened at 3 a.m.to a line waiting at the doors. It continued to advance.

8 News NOW caught up with them at the Boulevard Mall.

What the stores did thereafter varied. They opened at 6 Thanksgiving evening and will close at 9 Friday night. Stores like Best Buy in Vestal saw a steady flow of traffic throughout the store on both Thursday and Friday.

Consider the opening scenes at Best Buy, on Hempstead Road. In a strip mall that included Kmart, every store was open, but the only one with a shopper inside was Starbucks. She half-heartedly flipped through a rack of girls’ holiday party dresses and looked down the store’s empty aisles. But Deloitte’s Simpson said retailers need shoppers in the stores.

“There was a very long line, a few tents and a lot of lawn chairs”, Spencer said. But rather than being a stand-alone, standout day, it’s become part of an extended holiday shopping weekend.

“My other one was old”, she said. If you google “Black Friday Fights”, there are plenty of videos to go around that support that theory.

Wal-Mart said it had sold so many movies that it would take close to 3,000 years to watch all of them; many of its sales were online.

He echoed Trego’s definition of Black Friday, adding, “So much of the previous excitement on Black Friday is on Thanksgiving now”.

The shop blasted reggae music and welcomed the crowd with Green Friday welcome cheers.

Carolann Craft, store manager of the Ephrata Wal-Mart, saw Black Friday the same way.

“I have one hour to shop and then I have to get home and cook Thanksgiving dinner”, she said. Describing it as “steady”, Craft said the heavy traffic of Thursday evening resumed Friday.

For Pam Williams, the Black Friday shopping has lost a bit of its luster because there’s no rush of getting a sought-after item.

The Lititz store also benefited from being among the locations selected for new Target’s curbside pickup app, said Collins.

While Black Friday seems to be losing some appeal in the United States, British shoppers have taken to the concept enthusiastically, with reports of large crowds at big stores and malls in the UK. The job market remains strong. Proceeds support the not-for-profit Jewel David Ministries, which Reidenbach founded.

Brianna Orris, who said she went into the store for some kind of connector, came out with a 40-inch Smart TV under her arm.