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\u00a0It is Sunday night after the much hyped After-Thanksgiving Day Sales. Some stores opened at 4 a.m. What genius came up with that one? I figured that I could have all my Christmas shopping done before other stores opened at 10 a.m. Did anyone notice that although more stores were involved in these earlier openings, the specials or door busters were good but not the “WOW, WOW” (that’s a double WOW) that you would expect to motivate you to get out of bed at 3:30 a.m.? …….READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n

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