Black Friday shopping started early at the Citadel Outlets in Commerce with some stores opening their doors for overnight bargain hunters.
Several shoppers were at the mall late Thursday after Thanksgiving dinner and stayed into the early morning hours for a marathon day of bargain hunting on what is considered the start of the holiday shopping season.
The Quintanar family pulled a Black Friday shopping all-nighter, arriving late Thursday night in what has become a family tradition in its fifth year.
“We go to every store we can,” a family member told NBCLA in a line outside the Coach store early Friday. “We have to hit all of them up.
“We got here as soon as we could. We got here right after dinner, so like around 11 p.m.”
An Early Access Black Friday Sale began at 8 p.m. Thursday for what was billed as an all-night shopper party. Most stores will stay open until 11 p.m. Friday.
That’s 27 hours straight …