I will be as far away from stores as I can get on that day!
The national obsession today is eating. Friday is the day for a gluttony of shopping.
Black Friday is the official kickoff to the holiday shopping season, when retailers do about 40 percent of their business for the year, according to MarketWatch.
"The seasonal aspect can be pretty strong," Ken Lin, the founder of Credit Karma, told MarketWatch. "Consumer spending is so much higher in the fourth quarter than any other quarter of the year."
Big retailers including Walmart and Best Buy seeking a boost in Christmas sales in an anemic market rolled out their notices of door-busters earlier in the week to entice shoppers in.
If you plan to join the crowds, you need to plan ahead, and we're here to help. Here are shopping tips and store information to help you survive the big day.
Ready to shop? here's a sampling of what's open when:
OPEN TODAY
WALMART: Open round-the-clock; sales start at 5 a.m. Friday; 260 Bobby Jones Expressway, 3209 Deans Bridge Road, 4471 Washington Road, 1201 Knox Avenue in North Augusta, 3581 Richland Avenue in Aiken
KMART: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. today; reopens 6 a.m. Friday; 1647 Gordon Highway, 3830 Washington Road and 310 E. Martintown Road in North Augusta
BIG LOTS: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. today; reopens 6 a.m. Friday at 2708 Peach Orchard Road; open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. today at 3232 Wrightsboro Road
OLD NAVY: Noon to 7 p.m. today, 3 a.m. to midnight Friday; 219 Robert C. Daniel Jr. Parkway, 427 Fabian Drive in Aiken
FRIDAY
MIDNIGHT
TOYS R US: 3424 Wrightsboro Road
4 A.M.
BELK: 1163 Knox Ave. in North Augusta, 2441 Whiskey Road in Aiken
GAMESTOP: 38200 Third St., Fort Gordon (need military ID)
HHGREGG: 207 Robert C. Daniel Jr. Parkway
J.C. PENNEY: 3450 Wrightsboro Road, 2441 Whiskey Road in Aiken
KOHL'S: 4227 Washington Road, 5440 Sunset Blvd. in Lexington
SEARS: 3450 Wrightsboro Road, 2441 Whiskey Road in Aiken
5 A.M.
ACADEMY SPORTS & OUTDOORS: 4210 Washington Road
BABIES R US: 4225 Washington Road
BEST BUY: 3667 Walton Way Extension, 5135 Sunset Blvd. in Lexington
BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY: 1329 Augusta West Parkway
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS: 3450 Wrightsboro Road
GAMESTOP: 3209 Deans Bridge Road and 234 Robert C. Daniel Jr. Parkway
TARGET: 235 Robert C. Daniel Jr. Parkway, 4223 Washington Road and 2545 Whiskey Road in Aiken
5:30 A.M.
RADIO SHACK: 3206 Peach Orchard Road, 3830 Washington Road, 1215 Knox Avenue in North Augusta and 2441 Whiskey Road in Aiken
6 A.M.
GAMESTOP: 4431 Washington Road, 3555 Richland Avenue in Aiken, 2551 Whiskey Road in Aiken
LOWE'S: 224 Bobby Jones Expressway, 3206 Peach Orchard Road, 4305 Washington Road, 1220 Knox Ave. in North Augusta and 2470 Whiskey Road in Aiken
MACY'S: 3450 Wrightsboro Road
OFFICE DEPOT: 3675 Walton Way Extension, 1117 Knox Avenue in North Augusta and 5432 Sunset Blvd. in Lexington, S.C.
STEIN MART: 2834 Washington Road
AUGUSTA MALL: 3450 Wrightsboro Road
7 A.M.
FRED'S: 2416 Windsor Spring Road, 2909 Washington Road, 5107 Wrightsboro Road, 1511 North Leg, 2872 Tobacco Road, 401 W. Martintown Road in North Augusta
OFFICEMAX: 4221 Washington Road
AIKEN MALL: 2441 Whiskey Road, Aiken
8 A.M.
DILLARD'S: 3450 Wrightsboro Road; 2441 Whiskey Road, Aiken
MARSHALL'S: 4213 Washington Road
ROSS: 4215 Washington Road and 3412 Wrightsboro Road
T.J. MAXX: 3412 Wrightsboro Road
9 A.M.
T.J. MAXX : 459 Fabian Drive in Aiken
Comments
I will be as far away from stores as I can get on that day!
all my shopping is done online.......I think the AC is Trying to get folks out to the stores....sorry ...it ain't happening.
I know nothing about this Black Friday shopping, but one year the battery in my truck went dead on Thanksgiving Day. The next morning I figured I'd run to Walmart and get one. Lo and behold the crowd that morning coming out with these huge boxes. I came home with my battery and THREE TV's.
Riverman1, that is hilarious! Thanks for the laugh! :)
There is nothing I want or need, that is worth dealing with crazy shoppers. Normally rational people go berserk on that day.
I'm disappointed. I visit Augusta annually to see grand kids -- and to do my annual Black Friday shopping. Someone had stolen the ad inserts from the Chronicle at Bi-Lo before employees showed up for work. Bi-Lo employees told me about the theft and suggested I buy elsewhere. The Circle K employee across the street gladly took my money and sold a stripped newspaper. Good for Bi-Lo, shame on Circle K. I hope the stores are already out of the limited quantities of whatever the thieves were wanting to buy.
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