Shoppers wait in line to be let into Best Buy on Thanksgiving Day, Springfield, Va., Thursday, November 22, 2012. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)
Jesus Marin, 19, from Alexandria, looks over deals with his girlfriend Mariela Paredes, 20, from Fairfax, while wait in line for Best Buy on Thanksgiving Day, Springfield, Va., Thursday, November 22, 2012. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)
Shoppers wait in line to be let into Best Buy on Thanksgiving Day, Springfield, Va., Thursday, November 22, 2012. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)
Shoppers play PS3 from a TV powered by their car while they wait in line to be let into Best Buy on Thanksgiving Day, Springfield, Va., Thursday, November 22, 2012. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)
Shoppers wait in line to be let into Best Buy on Thanksgiving Day, Fairfax, Va., Thursday, November 22, 2012. One family had been waiting in line since Wednesday afternoon to be the first costumer. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)
Shoppers wait in line outside of a Best Buy store in Colma, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. While stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, openings have crept earlier and earlier over the past few years. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Denise Smith-Lad asks her grandson, Jordan Smith, 6, what he would like to eat as they camp in front of a Best Buy store in Cockrell Hill, Texas, on Monday. Mrs. Smith and her family lined up for the deals available on the day after Thanksgiving. (Associated Press)
Denise Smith-Lad asks her grandson, Jordan Smith, 6, what he would like to eat as they camp in front of a Best Buy store in Cockrell Hill, Texas, on Monday. Mrs. Smith and her family lined up for the deals available on the day after Thanksgiving. (Associated Press)
associated press A checkout line is backed up at a Best Buy store during a midnight Black Friday sale in Brentwood, Tenn., on Nov. 25, 2011. Holiday sales are expected to rise just 4.1 percent this year. Increases were 5.6 percent in 2010 and 5.5. percent in 2011.
