Black Friday Shopping Began Early

Target opened its doors at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving, and the shoppers came. By mid-morning Friday, shopping seemed to have slowed in some spots.

  Updated 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23: Shopper traffic at the Palmer Park Mall and Northampton Crossings appeared to slow late Friday morning, with the usual amount of shoppers for a weekend. Patch reported no long checkout lines. Kohl's at Northampton Crossings and Target were still busy. The Morning Call reported that Colonial Regional police broke up a small demonstration outside the Walmart in Lower Nazareth, by those protesting wages. A small group of demonstrators were also outside the Walmart in Lower Macungie, according to a report on lehighvalleylive.com. Tell us about your shopping experiences in the comments below. Thursday: Patch was at the Target in Lower Nazareth on Thursday night, when the store opened its doors at 9 p.m. to …

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Moms Talk

Do You Take Your Kids Black Friday Shopping?

Huge crowds plus waking up before dawn plus a couple of little people could be a formula for disaster.

Moms Talk is a weekly feature on all Lehigh Valley Patches in which local parents, caregivers and other members of the community are invited to share opinions and advice on parenting topics. This week’s Moms Talk relates to Black Friday shopping. True confession time:  I have NEVER been Black Friday shopping. I have read about it. I have seen stories about it on T.V. There’s the annual interview with the first person standing in one of the long lines that wrap around stores like Toys ‘R Us and Best Buy in the hours before dawn. I know the sales are good. I don’t love shopping as a general rule, so shopping on Black Friday just seems like too much hassle to me. But, I have been shopping and I have been shopping with my kids. I can’t …

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Five Tips for the Black Friday Shopper

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… er... starting next Friday.

It’s a tradition: in exactly one week from today, eager shoppers will rise before the sun and head out in droves to the nearest commercial outlet, forming unending store-wrapping lines, or in some instances even camping out, to grab the supposed best deals of the season. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is on November 25 this year -- exactly one month before Christmas -- and for most it marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. (Except for me. I start my shopping on December 22, to maximize my “Christmas cheer.") But since it is a time-honored tradition -- and since I have a mother and sister who religiously stalk out every year in search of the coveted deal -- I have compiled a list of tips for the world-weary bargain-…

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