Black Friday shopping frenzy

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Customers gather and wait for Sears to open at 4 a.m. at the West Acres Mall in Fargo, North Dakota, on Nov. 25. Over 30 stores at the mall opened at midnight.

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Shoppers line-up at Target in Lisbon, Conn., for Black Friday bargains late on Thursday, Nov. 24. Black Friday began in earnest as Target and other stores opened their doors at midnight.

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Landry Spitler (front left) Riley Spitler (left center) Megan Davis (top left) and Laura Davis (far right) show signs of fatigue while they wait in line for a cashier at the Target store in Mesa , Az., on Nov. 25.

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Shoppers ride an escalator at a Target Store in Chicago on Nov. 25.

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Black Friday shoppers wait in the check-out line over an hour, after waiting in line to get in and then fighting huge crowds at the Toys-R-Us store at the Fair Lakes Shopping Center in Fairfax, Virginia, which opened up at 9 p.m. on Nov. 24.

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Not in a million years would I want to be in that mayheim!

    Reply#1 - Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:11 PM EST

    has #OWS inspired you to boycott Black Friday?

      Reply#2 - Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:54 PM EST

      It's not about the holidays anymore it's about getting stuff  getting in line we have turned the houses into warehouses so we can store our stuff if it's out there I must have it no matter what it is. I have become a program person from all the commercials that I've seen on television they have programmed me if it's out there I must have it . If there is a line I must get in it doesn't matter we buy stuff we don't know why we buy but we buy because it makes us feel good

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