Mother and daughter Beth and Olivia Akin have never shopped on either Black Friday or Thanksgiving Day before – “I’m not doing that fightin’ stuff,” said Beth, the mother – but they wanted to try it out this year.
Standing in line to check out at JCPenney at Hamilton Place mall on Thanksgiving night, they found everything they needed. And then some.
“This is our second time standing in line here,” Beth Akin said with a chuckle.
The Black Friday sale has spilled into Thanksgiving evening in recent years, a day known for shopping deals and crazy crowds. And every year it comes hard and fast, swirling in the dawn patrol mobs and beating relentlessly for hours until it finally recedes with the afternoon.
The Akins said that after JCPenney, they’d swing over to Best Buy for a deal on a TV. Sue and Jacob Hilmes were standing in the Best Buy line waiting to get in the store.