Westfarms Packed With Shoppers on Black Friday

The Westfarms mall was packed Friday morning as people shopped for Black Friday deals.

As many as 140 million people are expected to hit the stores for Black Friday, spending roughly $617 billion. Retailers are offering deep discounts, door buster deals and half-off sales in entire stores like Ann Taylor's. XBox One consoles are $70 off at GameStop. Some stores gave away items for free.

Other hot items were Disney's "Frozen" collection, with 20 percent off the movie-themed items. Westfarms is one of the few locations in the country with a "Frozen" Ice Palace.

Many stores at the mall opened at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving, which is two hours earlier than last year, and stayed open overnight for a head start on holiday deals. Others opened early Friday morning.

"It's all organzied we have our coupons, our lists, so you've learned over the years you have to be prepared. Yes, we've been doing this tradition for 10 years now," Marissa Stafford, of Simsbury, said. "....I wanna say we saved about $3 or $400 so far. We love it. It's just a tradition that we like to do."

Smartphone tech gloves were popular at RadioShack and there was a long line outside of H&M, where the store was giving the first 100 people scratch-off gift cards.

"You have to really go through the flyers you have to do your homework and stuff that’s what we were doing last night after dinner," Angela Tokarz, of West Hartford said.

Parking is filling up.

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