Shoppers were out this past weekend looking for bargains. Some stores had pre-Thankgiving Day sales before the Black Friday sales. Some after-Thanksgiving sales will begin as early as 5 a.m.
Students looking for good deals on Christmas presents should get a treat this Friday, when stores have their annual Black Friday sales.
Some large retailers, such as Kohl’s, Wal-Mart and Target, already have ads with their Black Friday sales specials posted online.
Other retailers, like Best Buy, are doing pre-holiday sales to try to lure in consumers.
Scott Thompson, the home manager for the Wal-Mart on Perkins, said he thinks the Nintendo Wii will be the biggest seller this year.
Last year, the Wii sold out quickly and demand for the console created long lines in many retailers across the country.
Thompson said the lines at the Wal-Mart on Perkins probably won’t be any longer this year but more people will probably come in.
“Traffic will be heavy, if not heavier,” Thompson said.
More people might crowd in to shop this year because Thanksgiving is one week later than it was last year, Thompson said.
That means shoppers will have one less week to get all of their Christmas shopping done.
Although some students aren’t planning to go Christmas shopping on Black Friday, others, like Anna Matthews, a chemical engineering freshman, are looking forward to this sale.
Matthews said she plans to go shopping on Black Friday but she said she doesn’t plan to go anywhere specific.
And the economy’s ups and downs won’t affect her spending this year, Matthews said.
She said she plans to spend the same, if not more, on her holiday shopping.
For Christmas this year, she’s hoping she’ll get some new shoes.
Corbin Theisen, a landscape architecture junior, said he hasn’t planned ahead for Black Friday and probably won’t go shopping then.
He also plans to spend about the same this year than he did last year, despite the economy being down.
This year, Theisen lost some student loans, but he said he hopes everything will be normal in Mustang, his hometown.
He said he hopes his parents will pay for him to study abroad for his Christmas present.
“Do I think I’d get it?” Theisen said. “No, but that would be awesome.”
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