USA stores far from overwhelmed as Black Friday sales begin

Toys R Us shoppers were able to find everything from Star Wars products to Coding Caterpillars.

Whether it was at stores or online, shoppers were undaunted. Hill said she will stay on the low end of her usual spending this year because she’s anxious that Trump will start to cut back on Social Security.

Maybe one of the biggest reasons why people keep setting their alarms early each year for Black Friday is because.it’s simply a tradition.

“I was sleeping”, Naomi said.

With an exuberant smile, she rattled off her purchases: clothes, shoes, a vacuum, a pressure cooker and pillows.

MI shoppers are flocking to stores all weekend for post-Thanksgiving sales.

“Now with the stores opening on Thanksgiving, it’s ruined it”, Ginger Howard, of New Kensington, told KDKA money editor Jon Delano, “because we like the hustle and bustle, and you don’t get that as much anymore”.

“I think more people are taking the convenient way out – not fighting the traffic, not fighting the crowds and shopping in the ease and comfort of their own home”, said Gloria Jones, who began shopping early Friday morning with her daughter.

“Black Friday used to be the pinnacle event of the holiday shopping season”, said Shelley Kohan, vice president of retail consulting for RetailNext. “But Small Business Saturday is becoming more and more popular, too, and I look forward to seeing that “shop local” initiative really take off and add to the posterity”.

The electronics retailer opened for eight hours on Thanksgiving, with a crowd of enthusiastic customers ready to check out the “doorbuster” sales at 5 p.m. “But there were no gaps this year.

Despite steady, drenching rain, hundreds of shoppers waited for the JC Penney store at Washington Square in Tigard to open on Thursday. Such sales during Thanksgiving Day are expected to rise by 15 percent, from last year to reach $2 billion this year, according to USA -based research company Adobe Digital Insights (ADI).

Once the leftover turkey and stuffing was stored in the fridge, the beginning of the shopping season kicked off on Black Friday with the standard hordes of bargain-hungry shoppers.

“I’ve never done this – never went Black Friday shopping”.

Views from the parking lot showed Target was the busiest of all of the Salisbury stores Friday morning.

Trey Moore, of Seaford, and Tyler Tulak, of Salisbury, were two of four people in line outside Best Buy at that time.

That doesn’t bother Cedric Barnes of Dover, Del., an early morning shopper at the Tanger Outlets in Rehoboth Beach, Del.

Instead of Black Friday, we now have “Couch Friday”.

“The sales were just being spread out over more hours”, he said.

On a conference call Sunday afternoon, NRF president and CEO Matthew Shay told reporters 36% of all shoppers surveyed said 100% of their purchases were items that were on sale, up from 11% of all shoppers surveyed previous year.