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For Some, Black Friday Began Wednesday Night

A few shoppers spent all day Thanksgiving waiting to get inside Best Buy.

For a few dedicated Black Friday shoppers, Thanksgiving was spent camping outside the store in Bridgewater.

Carolina Rodriquez, Carlos Cespedes, Jeffery and Joanna Calderon and Carla Soto, along with their children, set up their chairs outside the store Wednesday night at 8:30 p.m.

By the time the store opened Thursday night at midnight, the line stretched around the building.

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The long lines and crowds were the norm late Thursday night and throughout Friday, including at the .

in the Bridgewater Mall also opened at midnight. The longest lines were found in the housewares department with people buying toaster ovens and coffee makers and George Foreman grills. Stacks of boxes higher than the people in line were seen as long lines stretched through the aisles at each register.

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