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    Black Friday starts out slow as shoppers brave COVID risks, order backlogs

    by Laurence Darmiento, Anumita Kaur, Angel Carreras, Salma Loum, Los Angeles Times Nov 26, 2021 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — Ashton Caudillo headed out with his father early Friday morning to the Westfield Santa Anita in Arcadia looking for a hard-to-find PlayStation 5 well before the mall’s 7 a.m. opening. What they found surprised them: only a handful of other shoppers.

    The 20-year-old’s father, Lawrence, has a distinct memory of Black Fridays past, when hordes of people made the experience less than pleasant, so he wasn’t complaining.

    “Black Friday used to be like Disneyland, waiting in line 45 minutes to spend money. I’d rather shoot myself in the foot than do that. So this, this is nice,” the elder Caudillo said with a smile. “I love when there’s not a lot of people around.”

    In the most consumptive nation on Earth, Black Friday in the U.S. has long been

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