MARIETTA, Ga. — While it might seem the infamous scenes of shoppers tackling one another at a pre-dawn store opening are a thing of the past, the Black Friday spirit was alive and well in Marietta on Friday.
11Alive crews were at a Black Friday Deals store in Marietta, where an old-school Black Friday shopping rush was on.
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One shopper spoke to 11Alive outside the discount store -- which operates year-round, with overstock merchandise coming in on Thursdays and then everything going for $8 on Friday. Whatever's left goes for even cheaper on Saturday, then cheaper on Sunday, and so on until the store closes to restock again on Thursday.
The man showed 11Alive a leaf blower he got for $8 on Friday.
"We done filled the trunk today, kids are gonna love Christmas this year," he said. "Some of the stuff, I don't even know what I got, the deal was so good I just grabbed it."
Check out the interview below as well as the scene inside Black Friday Deals in Marietta. The chain also operates stores in Norcross and Morrow, as well as in Columbus, Georgia.
(Note that the scenes in the back half of this video are from video taken Friday as 11Alive crews also went to Lenox Mall in Buckhead.)