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Black Friday hours: Here's a list of when retailers will be open


Retailers are gearing up for shoppers to turn up in droves this holiday season, with sales for the industry expected to climb more than 4 percent from a year ago, topping $700 billion.

And during the holidays, many shoppers will take advantage of key shopping days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday to score the best deals. Black Friday by itself is expected to be the busiest shopping day of the year. Some families will get an even earlier start at stores on Thanksgiving Day, with a slew of major retailers opening their doors then.

Overall, the number of shoppers who procrastinate to buy gifts is declining, according to NPD Group’s Marshal Cohen. “With fewer ‘last minute Charlies’ and widespread early deals stealing from the back-end of this shopping season, we should gear up for another front-loaded holiday,” he said.

It’s true — 60 percent of shoppers say this year they plan to start buying for the holiday season before Thanksgiving, according to a survey of more than 4,000 people by Deloitte. Twenty-seven percent of consumers surveyed say they plan to start shopping either on Thanksgiving Day or later in the month of November. Younger shoppers this year will be more reliant on discount days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday than baby boomers and seniors, Deloitte also found.

The average household, per another study by Deloitte, is expected to spend roughly $1,500 this holiday season, up 25 percent from a year ago. And they’ll be spending on everything from electronics to apparel, toys and home goods, while self-gifting is also expected to be more frequent thanks to such strong consumer confidence in the U.S.

Target CEO Brian Cornell earlier this year said he hadn’t seen such a robust consumer environment in his career, and he anticipates the best holiday season yet for the big-box retailer.



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