Shoppers enter Best Buy at the Maine Mall just after midnight on Black Friday.
Shoppers enter Target in South Portland shortly after the store opened its doors on Friday morning.
Ali Izhaiman, a seasonal employee at Target, helps Zainab Abow of Portland get her 49-inch flat screen television to her car on Friday morning.
Riordan Morrell hugs Jordan Cunningham as they wait in line to buy laptops at Best Buy.
A few hundred people line up outside of Best Buy in the Maine Mall just before midnight on Black Friday.
Jackson Cochrane, left, and Solomon Benami, both 15, are the first in line outside Best Buy. They said they got in line at 2 p.m. Thursday in order to be at the front for the midnight opening.
A kiosk mirror reflects Black Friday shoppers carrying their purchases at the Maine Mall early Friday morning.
Yousef, 5, lets out a yawn as he waits for his mother to finish shopping at Best Buy in the Maine Mall just after midnight on Black Friday.
Deshawn Lamour, 10, of Portland yawns as he waits to do some early Black Friday shopping at Target, where he had been first in line since 10 p.m. Thursday night.
Trystan Mericer waits with his stack of DVDs in the long line to check out at Best Buy just after midnight on Black Friday. Mericer says he comes down from Boothbay to shop at Best Buy every Black Friday.
Shoppers crowd into Best Buy looking for deals just after midnight on Friday.
Carol Rickett of Portland uses handwarmers while waiting in line outside Target.
SOUTH PORTLAND, ME - NOVEMBER 24: People wait in line to get into Target on Friday morning. (Photo by Derek Davis/Staff photographer)
Hungry shoppers stand in line in the food court next to blood on the floor from a fistfight. The men involved in the fight ran off before security could get to them.
A saleswoman stands at the front of Michael Kors at the mall after midnight.
Phelan Doyle, 16, left, and Zoey Flock, 15, sit with their friends in the food court at the Maine Mall just after 1 a.m. Friday.
Shoppers begin entering Target in South Portland shortly after the store opened its doors at 6 a.m. Friday.
Steve Chapman of Saco and Nina Labrie of North Attleboro, Mass., walk to their car after scoring some Black Friday purchases at Target.
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