Black Friday kicks off shopping season
DISTRIBUTED FOR MACY'S - (L-R) Jessica Gaddy reacts with Wanda Kemp as they shop during the Macy's Lenox Black Friday store opening on Thursday, November 28, 2013 in Atlanta. (Paul Abell/AP Images for Macy's)
DISTRIBUTED FOR TARGET - Black Friday shoppers rush in as doors open at 8 pm after waiting hours in line at Target, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013 in Minnetonka, Minn. (Craig Lassig / AP Images for Target)
Shoppers wait in line at a Target store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on Friday, Nov. 29, 2013. Black Friday, thought to be the most important shopping day of the year in the United States, is having an impact on Canadian sales as retailers work to keep consumers home, north of the border. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan)
Ready. Set. Shop! And with that, the holiday shopping season is underway.
More than a dozen retailers opened early on Thanksgiving Day and will keep rolling right through Black Friday, traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year.
Long checkout lines formed at a Target in Colma, Calif.; Macy’s flagship store in New York’s Herald Square was bustling; and patrons were seen digging through a shirt display at a Gap outlet in Los Angeles. Elsewhere, hundreds queued up outside a Kohl’s in American Park, Utah, and Best Buy employees were getting pumped up for a big sales day in Overland Park, Kan.
Here, in images, are some scenes from Black Friday across the nation:
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