enthusiastic and busy throughout the night. like you said, nearly half of americans will be shopping this weekend. of course good news for retailers, but even better news for the shoppers since experts forecast that it will be the shoppers who will be victorious at the end of the day with extremely aggressive retailers with mark downs greater than ever before. i m not sure what s going on here, but people are happy. it must be jolly old st. nick. earlier we heard from julia boorstin and the big ticket items and the more popular items. she mentioned that tablets and a few other electronics are wildly popular with shoppers. what are you seeing in florida? is that the same? that is definitely the same, but i haven t done the studying across the several different tablets, but several the ipad 2 is popular. the sales at the apple store are not that impressive.