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Shoppers Get an Early Start
Kevin Mohamed, computer department supervisor at the Best Buy in Wheaton, directs shoppers who showed up early. The store opened at 5 a.m.
(By Bill O'leary -- The Washington Post)
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-- Kim Hart
14th & U Streets NW
On a warm, almost springlike day, moms and daughters, visiting relatives, friends and couples strolled U and 14th.
"I avoid the mall at all times. The whole point of living in D.C. is the convenience factor," said Irene Katz, a Woodley Park resident and federal retiree, who was shopping with her visiting sister. "It's so much more fun and funky in D.C."
Sarah Hrdlicka, who lives in Columbia Heights with her sister, Katie, won't go near a mall. "The sales are just not worth all the stress."
Her mother, Nancy, although she is a self-proclaimed mall lover from Minnesota, has never been to one on Black Friday.
"It must be a family thing," Sarah said. "To get the sales, people go early and they turn Christmas shopping into a chore. It's just not fun."
-- Amy Joyce
The Mall at Prince Georges
Darlene Glass of Adelphi is a dedicated day-after-Thanksgiving shopper and arrived at the mall at 7:15 a.m., at the tail end of the first wave of shoppers.
In less time than it takes to roast a turkey, she hit six stores -- some twice -- and added to her stockpile of more than 22 gifts. By 10 a.m., she had two more stops, Linens 'n Things and Circuit City, before she could call it quits -- for the year.
"I don't shop in December," Glass said. "People are too mean."
Emmett Jones, 60, a retired D.C. police officer, has stormed the storefronts every year for the past 10 years, despite once nearly getting trampled waiting to get into a Target in Alexandria.
"It made me feel the female of the species is the strongest when it comes to bargains," said Jones, who spent 22 years with the Metropolitan Police Department.
At 5 a.m. yesterday, the line outside the Wal-Mart in Clinton was more orderly, thanks to a perimeter set up by Prince George's County police.
"They did a wonderful job," he said. "People couldn't rush the store."
-- Annys Shin
