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Thanksgiving hours help spread out Black Friday crowds
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Best Buy sales support staffer Titus Omar takes a home theater system to the front of the store Friday. Home theater systems and computer tablets were moving fast, said store General Manager Adam Dutton. “I still have enough product to last three or four days,” Dutton said. He said the line for Thursday’s afternoon sale stretched around the building. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Retailers are calling gray the new black after store hours on Thanksgiving diluted the frenzy of shoppers on the popular day-after shopping event. “They’re calling Black Friday now Gray Friday,” said Kristen Boettcher, Marketing Director of Lakeshore Mall. “I’d say that when the stores open on Thanksgiving, it is definitely spreading out the shoppers.”