Jonathan Skewes, 12, helps his sisters Lydia, 12, and Audrey, 10, find a serial number on Lydia’s iPhone 4s at Best Buy on Gunbarrel Road in Chattanooga on Monday. The kids received iPads and a Kindle Fire for Christmas so they went with their father to Best Buy to have protective coatings applied to the devices’ screens.
Easton Pevehouse, 2, helps his mother, Brandy Hayes, pick out a nutcracker on sale Monday at Target on Gunbarrel Road. Flocks of post-holiday shoppers took advantage of sales on ornaments, wrapping paper and lights among other things.After weeks of buying Christmas presents for everyone else, Keisha Sales decided to buy a few things for herself on Monday.
“This is for me today,” she said while picking up two CDs at Best Buy on Gunbarrel Road.
Sales also planned to hit up the JC Penney at Hamilton Place mall to take advantage of after-Christmas deals and coupons.
“I saw stuff that was definitely on sale,” she said. “So I had to come out.”
With continued heavy traffic around the Hamilton Place area Monday morning, it was hard to tell that Christmas holiday shopping had wrapped up. Traditionally a busy day for holiday returns and gift card spending, this year’s day after Christmas was given an extra boost as many employees had the day off in observance of the holiday.