MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — 115 million Americans are expected shop this Black Friday, but finishing that shopping early is the goal for many.
“I typically don’t go to the early door busters thing and just try to get the run of the mill deals,” Morgantown resident Chris Meadows said.
Meadows was shopping at Best Buy, WalMart, and HallMark on Friday. He said he’d be shopping for his kids, his wife, and himself, but that he already knew exactly what he needed.
“Got a monitor for the computer,” he said. “That was about $150 off. I typically think about Black Friday, the thing is if you have something that you want to get and you know want to get then you are good. But typically, if you start buying things you don’t need, and you start throwing stuff in the cart you are not saving much money.”
Originally from Northern Virginia, Meadows said the Morgantown outlets felt like a fairly average day of shopping.
“The crowds here seems like how it normally is in that area,” he said. “It’s typically not to super bad here compared to where I’m from.”
Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, typically with less fanfare, follow the shopping craze of Black Friday. In it’s eighth year now, Small Business Saturday usually has an impact of more than $15 billion in the U.S. economy.
More than 99 percent of businesses in West Virginia are considered small businesses, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration.