It was the darkest day the earth had ever seen. Literally. At noon, when the sun should have been at its highest, the sky went black. Not clouded. Not stormy. Black. Like the heavens themselves ...

Then, they entered the store and started buying books immediately — Black Friday shopping-style ... who joined the crowd of thrilled readers Wednesday. Allen doesn't think that the Barnes ...

Black Friday was once the epitome of consumer chaos. Bargain hunters would form crowds at store entrances before they opened, then rush in and empty shelves in mere minutes. It was a day that captured ...

Black Friday lacked the frenzied scenes of previous years but they drew respectable crowds. It was mainly 30 years of tradition that brought three friends out to a Target and Walmart in Livonia at ...

Gone are the days of competing with crowds and having to rush to a Target store at midnight to get discounts — you can score a ton of Target’s Black Friday deals online on headphones ...

The holiday shopping season is about to reach full speed with Black Friday ... retail rush this week. The annual sales event no longer creates the midnight mall crowds or doorbuster mayhem ...

The best in-person Black Friday deals can sell out fast, so check out when the biggest retailers open their doors and you can beat the crowds ... many still enjoy the rush of scoring a great ...

The holiday shopping season is about to be in full swing upon the arrival of Black Friday, with big sales ... no longer creates large midnight mall crowds or doorbuster mayhem seen in past years ...

"Shopping in your PJs beats dealing with Black Friday crowds," Ryan said ... "While Black Friday brings the rush for big-ticket electronics, Cyber Monday focuses on everything," Ryan said.

Others do not — for example Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that ... shopping day marking the start of the holiday-season rush came around a decade later. Between the 1960s and the ...