WYOMISSING, Pa.- Black Friday is back and so are the shoppers in Berks County.<\/p>\n
At the Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, people spent the morning hunting for clothes, shoes, and Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlack Friday shopping\u2026 looking for hoodies and sweatpants,\u201d said shopper Samaj Roberts.<\/p>\n
Some shoppers say Black Friday is a tradition \u2014 even if the crowds look different from years past.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just go see what sales they got\u2026 shoes, clothes\u2026 anything,\u201d said Kam Moyer, who comes out every year.<\/p>\n
The National Retail Federation estimates 130 million people are expected to shop today \u2014 the largest Black Friday turnout on record. That includes families finishing their lists here in Berks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did a lot of online shopping\u2026 and we’re finishing it up today,\u201d said Courtney Ansel.<\/p>\n
Her husband, Myles, says the rush isn\u2019t what it used to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore kids, we used to go out in the middle of the night\u2026 but it didn\u2019t seem too busy this morning, which was kind of nice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa.- Black Friday is back and so are the shoppers in Berks County. At the Berkshire Mall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,131,23737,5527,27972,28,128,130,129,133],"class_list":["post-47921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-berkshire-mall","tag-black-friday","tag-christmas","tag-online-shopping","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-wyomissing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}