Staff Photo by Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press
Monika Hamiton, left, a cashier and customer service associate at the Gunbarrel Road Target, helps Todd Fahrubel and his daughter Abby Fahrubel make a return.A lthough stores throughout the Chattanooga area will be dark and empty most of today, retailers expect a surge of after-Christmas shoppers on Sunday.
Kim Dunbar, store manager at Target on Gunbarrel Road, said the day after Christmas is traditionally the store’s biggest return day of the year.
“We definitely schedule heavier at our service desk,” she said. “We get our best, nicest, most patient people to be there first thing.”
Experts expect the day after Christmas to be a larger than normal shopping day this year since the holiday is taking place during the weekend.
“People won’t have to take off work to do their returns, and they can just go get it all done and then spend time with their family,” said Kathy Grannis, spokeswoman for the National Retail Federation.