After Thanksgiving, Americans Pursue Another Tradition — Shopping
Black Friday — the day on which Christmas shopping starts in earnest for many Americans — may have started on Thanksgiving Day this year, but it gave many shoppers extra time to hunt for deals.
NPR's Sonari Glinton spoke to shoppers in Colorado Springs, Colo., where people were camped out Thursday to get deals at the local Target.
"Do you think I need sweaters at Kohl's? No!" Janine Reed said. "But they're 10 bucks. You think I'm going to get one? Yeah – just 'cause."
Shoppers in Rome, Ga., lined up at the mall well before 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving for deals on footwear. Georgia Public Broadcasting's Joshua Stewart filed this report for our Newscast unit:
"Mount Berry Square Mall opened at 8 p.m., the earliest ever for the shopping center 70 miles northwest of Atlanta. Mall operations manager Tricia Dillard says shoppers beat her to work last night.
"'I pulled up to the mall around 6 p.m., and when I pulled up, Belk already had a line going around the building. So they were here before I was here.'
"Dillard says the Belk store was selling $20 boots and giving away gift cards to the first 200 or so shoppers. She says shoppers seemed to have more stamina this year — the mall was packed until about 2 a.m. That's the same time things quieted down last year, but then the mall didn't open until midnight."