Black Friday is shopping holiday madness incarnate. It's so lucrative that despite several retailers posting online deals, shoppers still lined up to stores.
According to CNN, tons of people planned and participated to the annual U.S. shopping craze wishing to snatch the greatest and latest deals.
Despite many sales available online, there is still a huge amount of shoppers who flocked the nearest retailer stores. Moreover, even before the exact day of the shopping event, many stores opened during Thursday of Thanksgiving.
Among them are Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Toys R' Us, Macy's, Kohl's, RadioShack and Kmart. However, most stores waited until the actual Black Friday to kick off the holiday shopping sales, which include H&M, T.J Maxx, Staples, Barnes & Noble, GameStop, Bed Bath & Beyond and Babies 'R' Us.
What's great for retailers is, compared to last year, shoppers are ready to spend 25 percent more this year or an average of $369 each.
Retail giant Walmart even pledged to offer many great online deals this year, with its Black Friday sales starting very early at 3:00 a.m. Thursday morning, but shoppers still to go to the store in-person.
In a related report by NBC news, although analysts have noticed a trend this year that fewer shoppers were in stores and more are sitting in their computers, the numbers of "in-person" shoppers are still very huge.
And surely, the tradition of getting early for the biggest shopping day in America was still going strong. One man even showed up at a Best Buy store in Albuquerque at the early morning just to wait at a 6:00 p.m. sale.
The shopper named Richard Crosby said, "There's a TV, a 50-inch TV [for] $150. It's hard to pass up." In addition, a woman named Michelle Toy of Oklahoma said, I got here at 11 o'clock last night waiting for a TV." as braved the cold rain outside another Best Buy on a Thursday afternoon.
The Black Friday madness is becoming more and more of a global trend that our neighbors across the Atlantic are also adopting the shopping holiday.
As reported by the New York Times, although the British does not celebrate Thanksgiving, they have enthusiastically embraced Black Friday.
It was so crazy that just last year, one woman was seen kneeling on the floor, grabbing a huge TV against a pack of teenagers.
It was reported that shoppers in different parts of the United Kingdom had experienced a gridlock, biting, pinching, punching, kicking and stock flying through the air just to grab the most lucrative deals.
But in America, it's just your typical Black Friday shopping.
