North Shore Stores See Brisk Business on Black Friday
Looking for good deals without the big crowds, many shoppers hit their local business districts.
While hundreds of North Shore shoppers descended on Bayshore Town Center Friday, just a few blocks away sisters Joan Colman and Breta Landy chatted as they walked down Silver Spring Drive, peeking in store windows of small merchants and reading window signs promising special deals for Black Friday. "Instead of fighting the crowds at Bayshore, we decided to come here and have a leisurely walk," said Colman, a Whitefish Bay resident. "We're just meandering around and looking in different stores." The business districts of the North Shore were not overrun Friday, but merchants said they had many customers who came in looking for discounts without having to battle the crowds. At family-owned Thiet Jewelers on Silver Spring Drive in Whitefish …
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