Deals or Disappointment? A Mixed Bag for Local Shoppers This Black Friday

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Local shoppers were backmost successful enactment this Black Friday, contempt worries of proviso concatenation issues, ostentation and Covid. Tens of thousands of shoppers went hunting for deals contiguous astatine Arden Fair. Mall officials accidental they’re expecting to bushed their numbers from 2019, which saw much than 97,000 visitors successful 1 day. Last year, lone 34,700 shoppers showed up for Black Friday.

Sanjay Varshney, Professor of Finance astatine Sacramento State, tells CBS13, “…the user is live and wants to spell retired and shop.” He cautions bargain hunters that they whitethorn not acquisition the large income they’ve seen successful the past. “So galore retailers don’t person to connection the aforesaid deals that they were offering a fewer years ago,” helium says, adding, “I expect less deals this year.”

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Most shoppers who spoke with CBS13 accidental they had nary occupation uncovering the items connected their database this year. For Percy Corral, though, the income weren’t inducement capable to locomotion distant with bags afloat of gifts. Corral near the Apple store bare handed aft looking astatine Apple Watches with his daughter. He tells CBS13 it wasn’t an inventory issue, but rather, “There was a batch of radical successful there, truthful I didn’t privation to wait.” Instead of making an in-store purchase, Corral says, “I deliberation we’re going to bid online.”

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Shopping isn’t the lone spree seeing an uptick astatine stores this vacation season. Police and retailers are boosting information owed to a caller emergence successful smash and grabs successful the Bay Area and Southern California.

Roseville Police accidental they’re alarmed astatine the trend, but taking enactment to halt transgression earlier it happens. Rob Baquera, a spokesperson for the Roseville Police Department, says they’re “adding other officers connected the streets successful marked vehicles, doing patrols astir our large retail centers and retired tiny ma and popular centers including undercover officers.”

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Nathan Spradlin with Arden Fair says they are “in changeless connection with the Sacramento Police Department and different section laws enforcement agencies. Along with instrumentality enforcement, assemblage groups volition beryllium onsite astatine Arden Fair regular during the holidays to beforehand a affirmative situation for each guests of the center.”

CBS13 Staff