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Black Friday sparks buying frenzy

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Droves of customers stream in to the Macy's Herald Square to shop at 5 AM in New York City on "Black Friday."

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Shoppers crowd Macy's Herald Square department store in New York, U.S. Shoppers gathered at Best Buy Co., Target Corp. and Toys "R" Us Inc. stores from New Jersey to Texas well before midnight yesterday to take advantage of Black Friday deals on televisions, laptops and robot hamsters.

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Vanessa Fayemiwo, 12, and her sister Vivian Ademola, 14, both of Rosedale, N.Y., take a nap as they wait for friends to finish shopping in the shoe section at Macy's in New York.

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Black Friday holiday shopper Dean Leon of Enola, Pa., curls up in a Target shopping cart in an effort to stay warm and dry as he waits in line outside a Target store in Mechanicsburg, Pa., early Friday morning. Leon is hoping to purchase an Xbox 360.

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Greg Inman of Shermans Dale, Pa., waits in a checkout line with other shoppers at Toys "R" Us in Camp Hill, Pa.

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Shoppers line up to pay for their purchases at a Kohl's store in Omaha, Neb.

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Chris Thompson of Farmington, Ky., guards his cart full of items that he and two other fellow shoppers were purchasing at the Best Buy store inside the Kentucky Oaks Mall at Paducah, Ky.

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A customer enquires about a weapon in the firearms section of a Cabela's store on the shopping day dubbed "Black Friday" in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Shoppers form a line as they wait for the doors to open at the Nebraska Furniture Mart, in Omaha, Neb.

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Customers wait patiently in line to check out at Target during the Black Friday sale in New Hartford, New York.

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Early morning holiday shoppers ride the escalators in the Westfield Centre in San Francisco.

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Shopper Dominic Owens, left, leaves a Best Buy store accompanied by employee Marquis Martin carrying his newly purchased flat screen televison in Corpus Christi, Texas. Shoppers gathered at Best Buy Co., Target Corp. and Toys "R" Us Inc. stores from New Jersey to Texas well before midnight yesterday to take advantage of Black Friday deals on televisions, laptops and robot hamsters.

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Shoppers look through the aisles during a Black Friday sales event at a “Toys R Us” store in Falls Church, Virginia. Americans headed to department stores in droves in the...

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Customers shop at Toys "R" Us on Black Friday in Tulsa, Okla.