Stores prepare for Black Friday

WILMINGTON — Employees at the Carolina Beach Road Wal-Mart kept busy on Thanksgiving as they prepared for the biggest shopping day of the year – Black Friday.

They even wrapped up some of the special merchandise to hide from Thursday’s shoppers. The super-store had truck loads of merchandise to unload and set up on the floor before Friday’s 5 a.m. opening.

Store manager Norman Taylor said he thinks all the advertising will bring in the shoppers. “We’ve got it on TV, good TV advertising. Also we’ve got plenty of newspaper printouts, So I am very confident that they’ll be at Wal-Mart tomorrow at 5 a.m.,” Taylor said.

The Monkey Junction Wal-Mart brought in more than 25 employees to help unload all the holiday merchandise. Taylor said he expects all of it to be gone in just a few hours.