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December 26, 2006

Back at it with just 364 shopping days left

After taking a breather for the Christmas holiday, Rhode Islanders headed back into the stores early this morning.

People began lining up outside stores and malls in the early morning looking to snap up holiday-themed goods at deep discounts and other items on sale, as well as return a misguided gift or two.

Your turn: What Christmas gift are you returning and why?

"I was kind of surprised," said Fran Olean, store team leader at the Target on Bald Hill Road in Warwick. "It was kind of a mini-Black Friday."

Black Friday is the nickname retailers have for the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

While the day after Christmas doesn't have a pet name, it too is typically a busy one for retailers. It's a day when the often slash prices on red- and green-colored dinnerware, silver and gold tree trimmings and other holiday-related gimcracks.

They also reduce prices on other goods they want to clear out before undertaking annual store inventory counts, which typically begin in mid-January.

"These are the people who've eyed something and didn't want to pay full price," Olean said of shoppers at Target.

-- Journal staff writer Paul Grimaldi

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