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Black Friday Rush Hits Garden State Plaza

Lines were the longest at Best Buy, H&M and Urban Outfitters at GSP in Paramus.

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November 23, 2012

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North Jersey residents braved the cold to sit outside all night waiting in line at the Garden State Plaza Best Buy so that they could receive the Black Friday Doorbuster Deals.

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After waiting in line since 9pm Albert and James Tormo leave Best Buy with the Televisions they hoped to get.

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Braving the cold Ben Odea tries to keep warm with hot coffee his mom dropped off as he braces for a long night waiting at Best Buy.

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Braving the cold Erik Sauer tries to keep warm with hot as he braces for a long night waiting at Best Buy.

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Ben Odea and his friends Tom Leiter and Jim Megin stay close together to keep warm as they wait for 7am and the opening of Best Buy.

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North Jersey residents braved the cold to sit outside all night waiting in line at the Garden State Plaza Best Buy so that they could receive the Black Friday Doorbuster Deals.

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Despite Blue Laws restrictions that prevented Garden State Plaza from opening before 7 a.m., groggy shoppers gathered at the mall before dawn, most of them waiting for big ticket electronics at Best Buy.

Customers waiting for door-buster deals on flat screen televisions and laptops showed up as early as 4 a.m., bundled in scarves and hats and gripping coffee cups.

Best Buy had the longest lines, followed by H&M and Urban Outfitters, where a manager stood guard and let groups of people in at a time.

The rest of the mall was busy, but lines were managable and moved quickly throughout the morning.

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jp1

1:07 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012

People are crazy and retailers are greedy.

Mark Ruckhaus

1:42 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012

For some folks, it's probably a sport by now.

But I have no respect for any retailer who opened on Thanksgiving Day (so, thank you, PC Richard). I ask such retailers: Do you need it THAT badly?

Ridgewooder

10:08 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012

Why do people put themselves through this? Isn't their time more valuable than this? WTF.

B@B

1:00 pm on Saturday, November 24, 2012

You know, I'm Jewish, and this relentless crush of insane greed makes ME want to put the Christ back in Christmas. When you are standing in line on Thanksgiving Day for a chance at getting a cheap TV that you don't need and your kid doesn't need, when the store only has two or three at that price and is just trying to get you into the store to buy other crap, there's something very, very wrong with that. The comedian Marc Maron has a bit where he goes into a shopping mall dressed as Jesus and walks around saying "No....NO! This is NOT how it's supposed to be, people!" When I hear about people getting shot (as happened in Florida) and about riots in stores over cheap crap made in China, I too feel like dressing up as Jesus and going to the mall. Maybe it will remind people what this holiday is supposed to be about. It's about celebrating the birth of your messiah, people -- not about who has the most electronic gadgets. Sheesh.

Curt

4:17 pm on Saturday, November 24, 2012

B@B,
Check out www.adventconspiracy.org
Multitudes of Christ-followers share your sentiments. The christendom of culture is always a bad story-teller. Thankfully many on the fringes are telling the story in great ways. I'm thankful for the many acts of chesed I've seen displayed from my Jewish brothers and sisters in humanity. Keep it up.