It's four in the morning, on any other night this home would be silent, but not this time. The sound of bustling about for keys, newspapers, and coats is heard. The door to the garage opens and with a quick turn of the key the car starts up and heads out to the mall. Black Friday, has come at last.
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is one of the most anticipated days of the year and has become even more popular than some holidays. That's because no other day has more to offer Americans than Black Friday.
This is the only day where businesses open their stores extra early, some as early as midnite, and drop their prices unbelievably low to attact customers.
Customers line up outside of stores as early as 3 a.m. and some even camped out in their cars in order to catch "early bird" specials and door buster deals.
Kevin Coberly, a 22 year-old employee at Moe's Southwest Grill in Greensboro, spent his moring shopping for a digital camera and scooters for his girfriend and two nieces. He smiles as he recalled his adventure.
"I was up at 3:00 a.m, he said. I spent four hours at one store. The first hour I spent waiting outside in the cold. and the next three hours were spent finding the gift and waiting in line".
Though every store in the Triad experienced the non-stop rush of customers, no store had as big a turnout than the Four Seasons Mall in Greensboro. Every where you looked there were hundreds of bustling customers, eagerly searching for the best deals on clothes, jewlery, electronics, and various accessories.
The Four Seasons Mall, opened it's doors to customers at 4 a.m. and didn't close it's doors till a little past 10 p.m. During which time, hundreds of shoppers hunted for sales and door buster deals.
Black Friday is the day most people do all or most of their shopping for the holidays. This is also the day when stores get the most business. And if you think this day was big for customers, then you can imagine how serious it was for those working in the stores.
Tiffany Davis, a store managers at American Eagle located in the Four Seasons Mall, was one such person.
"It's kind of exciting to see so many people out this early just to shop, said Davis. Excitng, but scary, because you know that all these people will soon be flooding your store".
And with so many stores to choose from, it's almost impossible to know where to start first.
LaRonda Puryear, a black friday shopper, gave some excellent advice. "The easiest thing to do is to start from the bottom and work your way up".
The Four Seasons Mall, with its three stories of various stores and sales booths offered non-stop consumer consumption and excitement. One could easily spend their whole day just perusing, as most did. One shopper and his family said they had been at the mall since it 10 a.m. and had only made it to the second floor.
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