Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy, thanksgiving has come and gone and black friday is in full swing. Some of the biggest chains have been open for hours. Toys r us and, walmart and target opened hours ahead of the midnight start on black friday and macys opening on thanksgiving evening for the first time in the 155 year history. The retailers want to makeup for the shorter span this year between thanksgiving and christmas and, walmart has protests with workers demanding higher pay and better working conditions and patricia is at Roosevelt Field in new york. Sorry we do not have patricia now. We will tell you a little bit about black fridays history. Thanksgiving thursday may have given black friday a run for its money this year. Some of the nations biggest chains started the Holiday Shopping season on thursday. Kmart welcomed shoppers at 6 00 a. M. , toys r us, target annual mart opened before the usual start on friday. Retailers say they need to time beca
Middle of the frenzy throughout the day. Tom joins us lye from wood bridge. Whats the scene like there . If i was standing here a year ago today at this same moment this place would be empty except for a few employs getting ready. To night they opened earlier than ever before, at 8 00 tonight and the crowds responded. There are a lot of people who ate a turkey dinner and then came straight to the mall. 6 00 thanksgiving night is the earliest best buy has ever opened. A lot of people, some of whom slept outside the store in tents last night streamed in. Meanwhile to the south crowds gathered outside a much bigger place also getting set to open earlier than ever. For the past half decade theyve opened at midnight. Tonight they open the doors at 8 00 and a whole lot of people streamed in. I couldnt believe how many people were out here. Deborah and her relatives made the trip a holiday tradition. We come here every thanksgiving and we dont even shop. We just come for the experience. Nuts.
On Thursday's News Hit: - A well-known Detroit panhandler and driver are dead after a fight over a gun. - Metro Detroit is expected to pick up several inches of snow from Friday into Saturday. - A Michigan State Police trooper and a person who had just been arrested were both hurt in a crash on I-75.