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Shoppers bust doors, hunt bargains, find deals as Black Friday launches holiday buying season
Area retailers report smooth day of selling, with TVs the most popular item
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Ricardo Becerra, and girlfriend Maryana Hernandez have the first two spots in line Thursday afternoon at Best Buy as they wait for the store to open. A few minutes after the store opening Becerra and Hernandez walked out with the televisions they wanted.
Black Friday is either an exhilarating way to score a deal or an overwhelming disaster of traffic and digging through bargain bins, depending whom you ask. The Belk department store at Lakeshore Mall had a nearly full parking lot when Grace Morrow, the manager on duty for Black Friday, got to work. She arrived an hour and a half before doors opened and didn’t have too much trouble on her shift.