Shoppers line up outside Best Buy before the store opens in Newport, N.J., on Nov. 27. Best Buy opened on Thanksgiving evening at 5 p.m., ahead of many other Black Friday retailers. The Friday after Thanksgiving is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S.
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Thanksgiving Day shoppers line up to start shopping at a Target store in Chicago.
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People carry shoes in Macy's during Black Friday sales in New York. Select stores opened Thursday to kick off the Black Friday sales.
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Defying the usual shopping tradition, protesters criticizing the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson, Mo. Police Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown hold signs aloft outside Macy's in New York on Thursday evening.
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Black Friday is international now. Customers push shopping carts loaded with LED television sets during a Black Friday discount sale at an Asda supermarket, operated by Wal-Mart, in London on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. The rise of the Internet has made the event a global phenomenon, with customers always being just one click away from the deals offered by U.S. retailers online.
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Macy's in New York was packed on Thursday evening as it kicked off Black Friday.
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Shoppers grapple and fall to the floor over a disputed LED television at an Asda supermarket in London on Friday.
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Early Christmas? A girl poses with an Olaf plush toy from Disney's Frozen toy line at the Toys R Us store in Times Square on Thursday evening.
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Masses of shoppers push to enter Macy's to kick off Black Friday sales on Thursday evening.
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Instead of having Thanksgiving dinner, shoppers lined up outside the Toys R Us store before it opened in Times Square on Thursday evening.
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