Bargain hunters, protesters and even a balloon animal twisting Mrs. Claus flocked to San Francisco's Union Square during Black Friday.
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Shoppers will swarm San Francisco’s downtown shopping district on Black Friday looking for a steal — but so will thieves.
Police and merchants say they’ll be keeping a close eye on The City’s shops and streets in response to an increase in robberies in recent years.
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As big-box merchants prepare to kick off the holiday season with Black Friday shopping deals, small businesses are also preparing for the weekend — but many say it’s not particularly beneficial to their operations.Black Friday does not play a role in the bottom line of some 75 percent of small businesses nationwide, according to a recent report conducted by Braun Research and released by Bank of America.
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In an incident that police said might have been gang-related, a man was shot in his leg Thursday night in the same San Leandro Walmart parking lot where a man was shot and wounded on Black Friday last month.
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Investigators have identified an 18-year-old man as the third suspect allegedly involved in a shooting outside a San Leandro Walmart store on Black Friday, police said today.Queron Foreman, an Oakland resident, has been identified as the driver of the suspect vehicle during the shooting, which occurred at about 1:50 a.m. on Nov. 25 in the parking lot of the store at 15555 Hesperian Blvd.
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Police have surrounded a home in East Oakland where they believe a suspect in a shooting outside a San Leandro Walmart store on Black Friday has barricaded himself. San Leandro police Sgt. Ted Henderson said a SWAT team has been summoned to a home near 106th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, where Detwone Watson, 29, is believed to be hiding and refusing to come out.
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Three teenagers were robbed in line at a San Francisco store on Thanksgiving while waiting for a Black Friday sale, police said.
The victims, two boys ages 14 and one 15, were walking to the end of the line of a store at Masonic Avenue and Geary Boulevard around 9:40 p.m.
Six other teenagers between ages 14 and 17 approached them, with one of the young thugs asking to “buy weed,” police said.
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The holiday shopping season got off to a strong start on Black Friday, with retail sales up 7 percent over last year, according to the most recent survey. Now stores just have to keep buyers coming back without the promise of door-buster savings.
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A woman who allegedly fired pepper spray at other customers during a Black Friday sale has surrendered to authorities, Los Angeles police said Saturday.
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On the busiest shopping day of the year, Occupy SF protesters are trying to shop-block consumers from buying gifts in Union Square.
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