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I love the smell of commerce in the morning:

Target Corp. offered wake-up calls this morning from Kermit the Frog to entice shoppers to its stores. Sears, Roebuck & Co. gave $10 gift cards to the first 200 customers at each of its more than 2,400 locations.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said it had 2 million customers in the first two hours of shopping today after opening its stores at 5 a.m., an hour earlier than last year. Crowds lined up for DVDs priced as low as $3.44 and a Hewlett-Packard Co. desktop computer selling for $398.

Posted by edelfenbein at November 25, 2005 10:50 AM