NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- After weeks of pushing early deals, U.S. retailers tried to seduce customers with promises of bigger discounts on Black Friday, the sales event that still reigns as the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season, reported The Associated Press (AP) on Friday.
"Department stores, shopping malls and merchants, big and small, see the day after Thanksgiving as a way to energize shoppers and to get them into physical stores at a time when many gift-seekers do the bulk of their browsing and buying online," noted the report.
