friday and stores are opening early all across the nation, including the one behind me here in north bergenid. the target. it's going to open up at 6:00 a.m. in about two hours from now. now, bring and mortar stores, that is the key this year, because they have been under pressure, of course, from the web. they are doing more this year to drive shoppers foot traffic into their stores. for example, many, of course, open on thanksgiving day. target here and across the nation open at 6:00 p.m. yesterday closed at midnight. and, of course, like i said, they will reopen at around 6:00 a.m. today. another thing the stores are doing and this is pretty tricky. offering door bust errors that are only in the stores. the reason they are doing that they want to drive you in the store, forcing you to get off your computer, come in here and maybe while you are here getting one of those door busters, also picking up a lot of other stems and increasing their revenue and profits. let's take a look at thanksgiving day stats. thanksgiving day shoppers expected to grow this year by 18%. the top three items as

strike a holiday bargain, that includes our own todd piro who joins us live outside of target in north bergenwe have surprises for you. actually here inside the target, this really is the calm before the storm. there are the doors right there. they will be open in less than half an hour. the carts at the ready come over here, you can see these are the aisles, the halls of target if you will. it's going to be like running of the bulls in pamp pamplona. can you see the folks in the back getting the store ready for what is sure to be a very big shopping day. let's go into the numbers and the facts here. this is a very high pressure year for traditional retail in light the online shopping. bring and mortar stores are doing more this year to draw shopper foot traffic into their stores. for example many open on thanksgiving day. target here and many across the nation opened at 6:00 p.m. and closed at midnight. door bust errors that are only in stores. tv's are the biggest example of that. as you might imagine, that is causing a frenzy in some storms. the mind set being we don't put them online. we

. >> ed: we have a lot of viewers racing over to north bergen now.ut. >> oh no. >> ed: we were in chicago last hour. maybe the crowds will start building later but on michigan avenue, normally big crowds on black friday. it was pretty quiet. i wonder what that means about online sales? >> let me just give you a couple pieces of information that we have so far. yesterday one half billion dollars was spent online from smartphones half of that. when you look at the big picture for the entire holiday season. let's say 170 billion online. overall 682 billion. yes mobile shopping and online is huge. brick and mortar still exist and for a reason. shoppers will come in. 115 million people expected to shop today. go figure. the biggest shopping day expected of this weekend. >> ed: i've got to correct you. those numbers are wrong without arthel going out there and shopping. they'll go up a lot higher. she is about to go out. >> arthel: i'm adding 1500. >> would you like anything from target? this is my personal shopping cart. i'm not supposed to do this. my da

our fox business analyst is not a procrastinator and joining us live outside of target in north bergenere. >> is that a legit number, 31% are procrastinators like you or are you trying to make yourself feel better? i'm not sure on that. >> both could be true at the same time. >> i can talk about that 59% number. that equals 164 million shoppers expected to buy something this weekend. so if you talk about the entire holiday season according to the national retail federation, that's $967 that we are spending each. but i've got to tell you, the way we have shopped has completely changed. if you look at online sales and that might explain the lack of crowds that you were seeing in many brick-and-mortar stores, online sales this morning alone, according to adobe, were $640 million. and about half of that is happening on mobile. so we're sitting on our couches at the breakfast table buying on our phones. and somehow the brick-and-mortars with expensive retail and a lot of overhead had to lure shoppers into the stores. how exactly do you do that? deals. we're seeing deals on television as we

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