Black Friday shopping begins on Thursday night, Friday morning

Stores in the U.S. were to open their doors yesterday for what is still one of the busiest days of the year, even as the start of the holiday season edges ever earlier.

Kuack said there were about 250 to 300 people lined up outside before Best Buy opened Thanksgiving and Black Friday. “I’m hoping to buy two of them, and I saw they had some real good prices, so maybe I’ll splurge on some other stuff as well”. Last night was pretty busy.

JCPenney’s Black Friday deals started at 3 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.

While Warren and Powell may be wily veterans of Black Friday shopping, for Nashville resident Angie Bond, this was her first time going out for the annual shopping event.

Black Friday’s top-selling electronics were Apple iPads, Samsung 4K TVs, the Apple MacBook Air, LG TVs, and Microsoft Xbox.

Not surprisingly, Cyber Monday is online giant Amazon’s biggest sales day of the year by far and this year’s shoppers will find more than 75,000 discounted items to choose from. The retailer said it was witnessing heavy customer traffic. Based on a Market Track study of holiday circulars, Walmart is offering an average discount of 39 percent, compared with 35 percent past year.

Cole Guthrie and Jacob Kritner of Springfield drove to The Greene Town Center in Beavercreek to scope out some deals.

What’s interesting about Amazon’s Cyber Week Deals is that with Amazon Prime Now, users can actually get their orders delivered to them within an hour.

“It’s finally getting a little cold”, he said.

May started Black Friday shopping when the deals were actually on Friday.

“It takes the fun out of it”, Tucker said. “On Thursday when we opened, the line was all the way over to Sears before we even opened”. Saks Fifth Avenue has started offering concierge help on its website. KOP reopens at 8 in the morning until 10 p.m.

Retail experts say you don’t have to do it all at once.

“I expected to be a bit more booming, but I mean I got what I wanted so, if I can get that in the end then I could really care less about anything else”, said shopper Charles Dandy. He wasn’t, however, surprised by the long line of interested shoppers.

Shoppers from across South Florida hit the malls in what some analysts believe could be a record breaking Black Friday. That compares with 21 percent who said they would shop on Thanksgiving Day.

“We’ve got more to do”, he said.

Crowds were also relatively thin at other stores in the mall, including J.C. Penney JCP.N and Abercrombie & Fitch ANF.N .

“There’s stuff they’ve seen”, Moore said about shopping for her daughters since past year.

Target reported more than 60% of its online sales came from mobile customers, while Amazon reported mobile orders on Turkey Day exceeded Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday past year. “Either way, shoppers looking for a PlayStation 4 Pro need to target this deal”.

“I fully anticipate this is a tradition we’re going to maintain”, Jasper said about staying closed on Thanksgiving.