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'Black Friday' Shoppers Buy But Spend Less Green

By Tamara Keith

Published November 27, 2009 at 1:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

These bargain bins at Target in Rockville, Md., are filled with $5 pajamas. Many retailers said their cheapest items went first and fast on Black Friday.

I've been doing it for so many years, there's just a part of me that can't give it up. I love doing it. Believe it or not, I love doing it.

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Tamara Keith

Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. In that time, she has chronicled the final years of the Obama administration, covered Hillary Clinton's failed bid for president from start to finish and thrown herself into documenting the Trump administration, from policy made by tweet to the president's COVID diagnosis and the insurrection. In the final year of the Trump administration and the first year of the Biden administration, she focused her reporting on the White House response to the COVID-19 pandemic, breaking news about global vaccine sharing and plans for distribution of vaccines to children under 12.