New bargains found during Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving

On the biggest shopping weekend of the year, several candidates were looking to capitalize by offering deals in their online stores – where any purchase counts as a campaign contribution.

The post-Thanksgiving sales bonanza has traditionally been aimed at the consumer space, but enterprise-focused firms have been touting their products this year. She introduced a bill to that effect earlier this year. So while most people were hanging out with family or lying on the couch watching football shoppers were already hitting places like Toys R Us, Target and Best Buy. “So, it’s not just a single shopper out there”, Campbell said.

For some of the Black Friday faithful, one of the top items on shopping lists was a 49-inch flat screen television for $149.

In another part of the mall, Toni Snyder, of Middletown, was perusing the aisles at J.C. Penney at around 4:30 a.m. J.C. Penney was her first stop, followed by Best Buy, Kohl’s and perhaps Target.

Crowds in some malls and shopping districts were thinner than normal on Friday, according to initial reports from both Reuters and The Wall Street Journal.

Although some people may relish the opportunity to leave the kids at home, Black Friday has grown into a tradition, becoming just as much a family gathering as Thanksgiving dinner. The officer took 16 shots and was named in 20 or more citizen complaints from 2008 to 2013 including that he committed misconduct in using force.

Here are the tech deals CNET has found, along with our advice on how to make your Black Friday a success.

An empty shopping cart is seen in a shopping center parking lot in Westbury, New York November 27.

Cyber Monday is the term given to the Monday after Thanksgiving, when people return to work and shop online. But Black Friday is also used as an indicator to what the holiday shopping season will hold.

Here’s how the start of the holiday shopping season is playing out.

The group also expects sales for the last two months of this year to be $630.5bn ($419bn). Crews will be outside from 7a.m.to 10 p.m. Friday.

The National Retail Federation estimated that 135.8 million people in country would shop during the Thanksgiving weekend this year.

Lisa Gutierrez of Aurora, Illinois, thought her strategy of waiting to go shopping until after kickoff of Thursday night’s Chicago Bears vs Green Bay Packers game was a good one.

“The grandkids aren’t all that hard to please these days”, he said, adding that getting good deals often leads to “over-doing it”.