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Going for Broke -- and Bargains
Bargain shoppers, many facing frigid temperatures, woke up before dawn Friday to snap up specials on items from cashmere sweaters to flat-screen TVs and digital music players as the holiday shopping season officially got under way.
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But by 4 p.m. Taylor, who lives in West Virginia, was surrounded by shopping bags as she examined shoes at L.L. Bean. Gap? Check. Bath & Body Works? Check. Yankee Candle, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's? Check.
"Round one," Taylor said with a smile. She planned to hit Tysons Galleria later in the day and spend the night at a nearby Marriott before heading home.
"It's pretty much adrenaline," she said of her marathon shopping excursion.
Alma Ramirez, 47, was not so perky. She and a half-dozen friends had stormed Potomac Mills before going on to Tysons, where she rested in front of Bloomingdale's with eight shopping bags at her feet. Her mother, 83-year-old Clara Zepeda, sat next to her.
"We're taking a break," Ramirez said. "I'm very tired."
Yesterday was Ramirez's first Black Friday, with its spectacular crowds, bargains and traffic. It had taken her nearly an hour to drive to Tysons from her home in College Park, but her filled shopping bags suggested she had found the sales that brought her here.
Perhaps, she said, she would return next year.
It all depends on the sales.
Staff writers Dana Hedgpeth, Elissa Silverman and Joshua Zumbrun contributed to this report.
