Black Friday 2012

147 million shoppers were expected to shop this Black Friday, when actually 247 million shopped on Black Friday. The total spending was an estimated of $59.1 billion dollars. This year, the average Black Friday shopper spent $423. Also, some stores opened early, like Target, they opened at 9 p.m., Sears, Toys R Us, they all opened at 8 p.m. But, some stores have been doing it for a period of time. Like, Wal-Mart, last year they opened at 10. And Toys R Us, they had opened an hour earlier.