Black Friday Tweets from Milwaukee Shoppers and Businesses

We compiled tweets, links and videos from local online users preparing, or avoiding, the year's largest shopping day.

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A Tip Guide to Black Friday Shopping

Whether you're shopping at a mall, department store, electronic store, etc this guide can help ease the pain.

Every year people all over the country go into a shopping frenzy on Black Friday. Some people love it and some people hate it. Negatives of Black Friday: Looking for parking Standing in the cold waiting for a store to open Pushing through the crowds Irritability Inevitable sleepiness So on… Positives of Black Friday: The great feeling of getting the best deal Enough said... To make this shopping experience fun and easygoing Patch sat down with Southridge Mall manager Mary Mokwa and pounded out some Black Friday shopping tips. Plan ahead! Know what stores you want to shop at and what kind of items you want. Budget, budget, budget. Know how much you want to spend ahead of time. “With all the online things you can look at now make a plan,” …

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Walker Recall Petitions to Circulate at Black Friday Events

Politicos trying to force Wisconsin's governor into a recall election are planning to be out among the frenzy of shoppers.

As if Black Friday needed more craziness.  The annual shopping frenzy will have a dash of the political this year as supporters of an effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker plan to circulate petitions among the deal-hungry masses. Wisconsin Democrats are planning to collect signatures in the Milwaukee area at several stores, including:  Recall supporters won't have any luck at Southridge Mall, said Mary Mokwa, manager of the mall.  Collecting signatures is a form of soliciting, Mokwa said, and the mall allows no soliciting inside of the building or in its parking lot. The closest recall supporters could get to the shopping center are the public sidewalks surrounding the Southridge property, she said.   "If we would observe them and we would …

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Editor's Notebook

Black Friday, To Shop or Not to Shop

The craziness that comes with Black Friday.

I have a confession. For the past six years I have been one of those crazy people who stays up all night till the stores open on Black Friday. And yes, I have been known to elbow one or two people along the way.   Some might already know that I am from Chicago. Every Thanksgiving I go home to have a feast at mom’s house and then I stay up all night waiting till the stores open. The first time I went shopping was the first year the Chicago Premium Outlets opened at midnight. Bad idea. Friends and family all jumped into two SUVs. We get on the highway only to find an unbelievable amount of traffic. It was so bad that the emergency lane became a regular lane. We were about five miles away when we realized there was no way we were going to get…

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