United Kingdom is predicted to break the shopping record on Black Friday

MA shoppers made their way to area malls and stores shortly after midnight for the traditional Black Friday kickoff to the holiday shopping season. There’s also a 50-inch 1080p LED TV available for $145, a 50-inch 4K Smart TV for $249, 40% off HP laptops and many more.

Macy’s Inc. CEO Terry Lundgren said he was seeing more opportunity to grow sales as a whole this holiday season compared with past year when growth in online shopping came at the expense of physical stores. “If it were up to me, I would be in my pajamas and on my computer at home”.

Still, some shoppers only came out on Friday as an act of defiance against retailers opening their doors on the national holiday. Majority had been there all night, equipped with propane heaters and blankets. “So, all in all, it was good”, Burrows said. Malloy said she hadn’t yet shopped online but usually does so. Watt says she would have paid several hundred to get her hands on it.

For millions of people Black Friday is the time to do some serious Christmas shopping -even before the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone.

“I’m a point-and-click person”, she said.

But its popularity has been on the wane given the emergence of online shopping and cheap deals through the year from retailers including e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc.

“I personally like to go to a store and talk to someone”, she said.

There are a lot of things to be thankful for on Thanksgiving Day and one of them is the massive amount of discounts to be enjoyed the day after on Black Friday.

Sephora: Makeup and beauty deals from about 30-75 percent off, with exclusive kits in for Black Friday and sales on brands like Buxom, First Aid Beauty, Clinique, Tarte, Too Faced, Sephora brand products, and more. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, vies with the Saturday before Christmas as the busiest shopping day of the year.

For many shoppers, Black Friday will continue until stores close at 10 p.m. or later. Their Black Friday consisted of opening an hour early, a couple of items on sale.

Amazon along with other retailers are also having their Cyber Monday sales like Walmart and Best Buy; among others.

“Haven’t slept. We’ve been going for 12 hours straight”, exclaimed Maria Roi.

“Shopping online, I feel like it’s way easier because you don’t got to deal with the crowds, the lines”. On Thanksgiving Day, folks spent $1.9 billion on online deals, according to Adobe, up 12% from a year ago.

American shoppers, meanwhile, have no such complaint, but even they are finding the frenzy is less than in previous years partly because of the rise of online shopping. “It is already being discussed in numerous video game communities, and shoppers looking to get an Xbox One S 1TB should target this deal”, Dengler said. The shopping tempo is deliberately fast and goes anywhere around 629 items per second, and around 33 electronics bought per second. That excludes vehicle sales, gas and restaurant receipts.