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Adam Briere of Braintree filled his cart with gifts for his children at Target during Black Friday at South Shore Plaza in Braintree.

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A line formed outside Target and wrapped around Nordstrom at South Shore Plaza in Braintree.

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A line formed outside Sears at midnight at South Shore Plaza.

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Elvis Ortiz (left), 19, of Hyde Park, and Andrea Hornedo, 16, of Hyde Park, waited outside Target at 1 a.m. to buy video games at South Shore Plaza.

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Shoppers waited to buy goods inside Sears at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua during a pre-Black Friday sale. About 400 people had waited in line outside for the store’s 8 p.m. opening on Thanksgiving evening.

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Shoppers congregated in the electronics section of Target at South Bay in Dorchester after its 4 a.m. opening.

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Shoppers waited outside in the rain for the store to open during Black Friday in South Bay Center in Dorchester.

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Norman Oak waited for Black Friday in a tent in front of the Best Buy store in Nashua since Tuesday morning.

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Customers waited in line outside Best Buy at the Cambridgeside Galleria on Thanksgiving night for Black Friday sales.

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Protesters demonstrated outside a Walmart store in Chicago.

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Shoppers waited for the midnight Black Friday opening of stores at the Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Ore.

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Shoppers Val Mahlke, Sue Mahlke, and Amy Beier waited outside a Target store in Winona, Minn., on Thursday.

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People waited in line Thursday for a Best Buy store in Northeast Philadelphia to open at midnight.