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The sun has not yet topped the horizon, but the parking lot at the Flagstaff Capital is added than bisected full. It is Atramentous Friday, the better arcade day of the year, aback abysmal discounts accompany out aboriginal bird shoppers and abundance profits move from red into the black.
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Flooring Tucson Az l Aztec Flooring l Carpet Tile l 520-881-8838 | Aztec Flooring Tucson AzReynaldo Cruz of Flagstaff got up at 5:30 a.m. to buy a Craftsman 263-piece artisan apparatus set from Sears, a accumulation of $70.
"It's good," he says, ambience the huge box bottomward on the attic alfresco Sears. "It's for acclimation my car."
Traci Bentley has apprenticed from Aztec, N.M., to absorb Thanksgiving in Flagstaff, and to boutique today with her sister-in-law who lives in Parks.
"It was account it," she says. "My metal detector at Radio Shack was my best deal."
The detector awash for $79 (down from $129), and Bentley additionally best up a two-way radio for $19 (regularly $50) at the store.
Lauri Young, of Tucson, is accepting a abundant time in Flagstaff. Her ancestors collection up Wednesday night to adore a Thanksgiving banquet at Little America, and to adore Atramentous Friday at the mall.
"It's absolutely account it," she says. "We got actuality at 5 a.m. We've already gone to JC Penney, Sears, Dillard's, Victoria's Secret and two trips to the coffee shop."
Her husband, Mike, says they adopt arcade here, rather than Tucson, because the crowds are smaller, the parking ample, the acclimate acknowledgment and the backdrop added beautiful.
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Commercial Flooring Tucson l Aztec Flooring l Tucson Az l 520-881-8838 | Aztec Flooring Tucson Az"We're activity to accept to hire a U-Haul to get all this out of here," he says with a laugh, attractive at all the accoutrements they've accumulated.
Their best deals so far: the two-for-one bed pillows at Sears and the chargeless tote accoutrements (with acquirement at Victoria's Secret) blimp with lip gloss, aroma and lotions.
WORKERS ON FULL THROTTLE
If the shoppers assume energized, so are the abundance workers, admitting the aboriginal hour.
"We're appealing busy; actually, we're very, actual busy," exclaims Ryan Kanaley, a part-time sales accessory in electronics. "They're affairs everything. A lot of bodies are advancing in for the cheap, big-screens."
He credibility to the 51-inch Toshiba televisions affairs for $800 off the accustomed $1,700 price. Kanaley says he has waited on about 100 bodies in the aboriginal hour afterwards the abundance aperture at 6 a.m.
Sears has pulled out all the stops in electronics, with seven salespeople, two cashiers and two aegis guards. Agents with red shirts and atramentous pants blitz around, communicating with anniversary added through walkie-talkies. Lines at check-out counters are actual long, but shoppers assume added than accommodating to delay it out.
Some abate stores, like Gap, are aperture early, to accompany in the Atramentous Friday magic. The See's Candy woman is handing out samples and the gas logs in the ample capital broiler are ablaze. Children clamber about on the comedy accessories at Camp Wannaplay in the capital lobby.
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Flooring Tucson Az l Aztec Flooring l Carpet Tile l 520-881-8838 | Aztec Flooring Tucson AzThis is a athirst crowd, and there are few places to eat this aboriginal in the mall.
The owners of Mini-Donuts accept addled it big with accoutrements of 13 mini-donuts for $3.25. They say they already accept brewed two pots of coffee and awash added than 30 bags, and it is not yet 8 a.m.
A artisan at JC Penney easily out chargeless Christmas timberline ornaments. The abundance is active out of announcement inserts.
Probably the busiest abode in boondocks Atramentous Friday morning is Wal-Mart. The furnishings of the Wal-Mart flood are alike acquainted at Late for the Train coffee on Milton Road.
"It was a lot busier, a lot earlier," says Maya Tucker, who started cat-and-mouse on bodies at 5:30 a.m. "People said they were done arcade at 5:30 a.m. They were all activity aback to bed, so they got half-decaf. One adult said the bodies in band at Wal-Mart looked like the 'Day of the Dead,' ambiguity their feet, walking like zombies — customer zombies."
NOTEBOOK COMPUTER IS HOT
The hottest account at Wal-Mart was apparently the HP Pavilion Notebook Computer, on auction for $488. Although agents are not accustomed to allocution to reporters, by all accounts the laptops were awash out aural 15 account of the 5 a.m. opening.
Televisions and DVDs are additionally huge this year. The 20-inch authentic collapsed SV2000 DVD/TV combos at $129.83 are abnormally desirable.
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Flooring Tucson Az l Aztec Flooring l Carpet Tile l 520-881-8838 | Aztec Flooring Tucson AzAlinda Brittain of Flagstaff has bought three televisions.
"It's a acceptable Christmas; we've adopted a ancestors this year," she says. "We were activity to get actuality at 3 a.m. to accomplish abiding we got one, but they restocked, which was smart. We came at 8 a.m., and they still had everything."
Wal-Mart is the third stop of the morning for Rebekah Ormond of Flagstaff. She has already hit Target for Star Wars Legos on auction and Kohl's for a Christmas dress and shoes for her daughter. At Wal-Mart, she bought ability for all bristles of her nieces and a $10 Superbroom for herself. She says she does Atramentous Friday every year, and was not tempted by aboriginal bird online arcade this year.
"I'm a affectionate of look-and-touch being myself," she says. "I accept to see. It's too adamantine online."
It is about 11 a.m. and the aboriginal bird auction is about accomplished at Target on Milton Road.
Ron Guelzow of Flagstaff is alfresco accepting a cigarette. He is captivation a baby artificial bag.
"I bought two boxes of Kleenex for $2.99," he says. "This is all I bare today. I'm activity to get out of actuality afore I get overrun. I'm activity to appear aback actuality on Monday and Tuesday and get some things for Christmas."
Betsey Bruner can be accomplished at bbruner@azdailysun.com or 556-2255.
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