{"id":95046,"date":"2025-12-24T18:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95046\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:45:13","slug":"last-minute-shoppers-hit-stores-in-central-florida-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95046\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-minute shoppers hit stores in Central Florida on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last-minute shoppers hit stores in Central Florida on Christmas Eve<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tACCURATE FORECAST IN MINUTES. TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO FIND THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE SPECIAL PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE. WESH 2\u2019S BOB HAZEN SPENT THE MORNING TALKING WITH BUSY SHOPPERS IN OVIEDO. CHRISTMAS IS ALWAYS A FUN TIME, BUT \u2588IT\u2019S ALSO A DEADLINE TO GET ALL THAT SHOPPING DONE BEFORE THE STORES SHUT DOWN. I GOT TO GET 18. I GOT LIKE NEPHEWS, NIECES, GOT AUNTS, UNCLES, MY DAUGHTER. WE\u2019RE ALL COMING TOGETHER. JIMMY NOVELLINE HAS A LOT TO GET, SO HE STARTED EARLY, HITTING TARGET AND ROSS AND OTHER STORES PACKED WITH A NONSTOP SHOPPING AND SMILES. THE PARKING LOTS ARE CROWDED. EVEN IN THIS NEW AGE OF SHOPPING, AND SOME FOLKS WE TALKED TO STILL HAVE A FEW THINGS LEFT TO GET. NOWADAYS, WITH ONLINE, YOU DO MOST OF YOUR SHOPPING ONLINE ANYWAY, SO JUST LAST MINUTE THINGS. AT THE OVIEDO MALL, FAMILIES GOT A LATE MEETING WITH SANTA WHILE THEY SHOPPED. WE EVEN SAW A DIFFERENT SANTA SHOWING UP WITH COFFEE IN HAND AND ULTIMATE COMICS IN THE MALL. THIS WEEK HAS BEEN GREAT FOR ERIN HOLLAND\u2019S BUSINESS. THERE WERE PEOPLE BEFORE I ROLLED UP THE DOOR. IT\u2019S FUN. YESTERDAY WAS INSANE. I\u2019M REALLY DIGGING IT. HIS BIGGEST SELLER, A NEW BATMAN COMIC, THE BIGGEST SELLER. HONESTLY, ABSOLUTE BATMAN. IT\u2019S THE WEIRD THING THAT OLD SCHOOL FANS AND NEW PEOPLE BOTH LOVE. LIKE THERE\u2019S NO HATERS. IT CAN GET STRESSFUL TRYING TO GET THE RIGHT GIFT WITH TIME RUNNING OUT, BUT JIMMY SAYS YOU GOT TO GO WHERE THE SHOPPING WINDS TAKE YOU. IT ALL COMES TOGETHER. NO, I MEAN, I\u2019M LIKE A SPONTANEOUS GUY. SO IF I SEE SOMETHING LOOKS NICE, REASONABLE PRICE. I GOT A PERSON THAT THAT GOES TO. COVERI\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Last-minute shoppers hit stores in Central Florida on Christmas Eve<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766601913_976_wesh.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WESH logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 1:04 PM EST Dec 24, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last-minute shoppers hit stores in Central Florida on Christmas Eve ACCURATE FORECAST IN MINUTES. TIME IS RUNNING OUT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50691,147,40454,28,30,29,50690,18302,50693,50692,1736,50689,992,12706,5371,8529,48856,918],"class_list":["post-95046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-big-seller","tag-central-florida","tag-christmas-eve","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fun-time","tag-im","tag-jimmy-novelline","tag-last-minute-shopper","tag-lot","tag-oviedo-mall","tag-people","tag-santa","tag-shopping","tag-store","tag-stores","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}