Black Friday has come and gone, but the weekend had people filling up the stores with their shopping carts and lists in hand.
"This is what we live for here in retail,” said Michele Johnson with Target.
By now, stores have a good idea of the year’s hottest items. At Target, shoppers crowded the electronics.
"This is more of an electronics year than I think we've seen in a long time,” Johnson said.
From E-readers to iPods, Target says they’re low on TVs more than anything else.
Over at Best Buy, store manager Peter Capuano explains flat screen TVs are now the rule rather than the exception. Because of high-definition technology, the Blue Ray DVD players are becoming the norm.
"Blue Ray players are really big this year. The price point has come down to where it's fairly reasonable, about where regular DVD players were two years ago,” he said.
Some GPS systems are now under $100.
"Where people thought they were a luxury item, now they're kinda becoming more like a cell phone. Every one's got one in every car,” Capuano said.
But nothing went faster at Best Buy than the iPod Touch.
"We sold out of that in probably 45 minutes and we had a couple hundred of them,” Capuano said.
At Target, workers re-stocked the game shelves, but some parents may spend extra time looking for toys.
The Nerf Vulcan was a hot commodity, and about the only place you can see what a Zhu Zhu Pet looks like is in the sale papers from a couple days ago. Now, those shelves are empty.
The hottest items range from practical to entertaining, but something that isn't selling as well this year are Christmas decorations now that people want to save some extra money and use what they had last year.
Target workers say practical items such as microwaves and vacuum cleaners were up for grabs on Black Friday and were very popular with customers.
Over the past couple days, people are spending.
"Around $800,000 dollars or so, yeah, which is up from last year,” said Capuano.
That’s putting shoppers and the stores in the holiday spirit.
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