date:Nov 23, 2012
planned to shop early Black Friday sales on Thursday night, according to a survey by the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs.
But Black Friday itself today was still expected to be the busiest shopping day of the weekend, with one-third of all consumers or 80 million people planning to shop today.
In total, the National Retail Federation estimates that 147 million shoppers planned to shop this weekend from today through Sunday a slight decrease from the 152 millio