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CNN Live At Daybreak

Holiday Shopping Maul

Aired November 29, 2002 - 06:37   ET

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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year. The holiday maul is under way at the mall.
And Karen Guglielmoni of the CNN affiliate WJXT is joining us from Jacksonville, Florida.

Karen -- are there a lot of shoppers out there already this early?

KAREN GUGLIELMONI, CNN AFFILIATE WJXT REPORTER: Well, the crowds are growing out here. It's a pretty cold day by Florida's standards anyway. So, people are coming here to warm up. They started showing up a little bit before 6:00, because that's when some of the major anchor stores here, like Parisian here behind here, started opening their doors.

We talked to some of the people who got out here early. They say they like to shop early, because they can get a parking spot, which won't happen later in the day. And also, the malls just aren't as crowded this time of day.

You can take a look, there are a lot of people here when you consider it's 6:30 in the morning, but really not the crowds that we'll probably see later in the day.

Our station also has a crew over at Toys R Us this morning, and they're seeing big crowds over there, but here at the mall, the largest lines that we've seen are right here at the coffee kiosk, people trying to keep warm here.

But I'm sure as the mall opens up later in the day, a lot of these stores will be opening up. And just by window shopping, you can tell there are a lot of really good sales and giveaways here, so there are probably going to be quite a few more people here as the day goes on.

Back to you.

CALLAWAY: Karen, not all of the stores are open there. It looked like some of them were still closed.

GUGLIELMONI: Yes, really, the only stores that are open here are the major stores -- Belk (ph), Sears, Parisian and J.C. Penney. A lot of the smaller stores aren't open here, and a lot of people were really surprised by that, because they expected in this day and age a lot of places open early, but just not here at the mall. CALLAWAY: All right, well, at least they got a good parking spot, right?

GUGLIELMONI: That's right.

CALLAWAY: All right, Karen, thank you very much. She's with WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Aired November 29, 2002 - 06:37   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year. The holiday maul is under way at the mall.
And Karen Guglielmoni of the CNN affiliate WJXT is joining us from Jacksonville, Florida.

Karen -- are there a lot of shoppers out there already this early?

KAREN GUGLIELMONI, CNN AFFILIATE WJXT REPORTER: Well, the crowds are growing out here. It's a pretty cold day by Florida's standards anyway. So, people are coming here to warm up. They started showing up a little bit before 6:00, because that's when some of the major anchor stores here, like Parisian here behind here, started opening their doors.

We talked to some of the people who got out here early. They say they like to shop early, because they can get a parking spot, which won't happen later in the day. And also, the malls just aren't as crowded this time of day.

You can take a look, there are a lot of people here when you consider it's 6:30 in the morning, but really not the crowds that we'll probably see later in the day.

Our station also has a crew over at Toys R Us this morning, and they're seeing big crowds over there, but here at the mall, the largest lines that we've seen are right here at the coffee kiosk, people trying to keep warm here.

But I'm sure as the mall opens up later in the day, a lot of these stores will be opening up. And just by window shopping, you can tell there are a lot of really good sales and giveaways here, so there are probably going to be quite a few more people here as the day goes on.

Back to you.

CALLAWAY: Karen, not all of the stores are open there. It looked like some of them were still closed.

GUGLIELMONI: Yes, really, the only stores that are open here are the major stores -- Belk (ph), Sears, Parisian and J.C. Penney. A lot of the smaller stores aren't open here, and a lot of people were really surprised by that, because they expected in this day and age a lot of places open early, but just not here at the mall. CALLAWAY: All right, well, at least they got a good parking spot, right?

GUGLIELMONI: That's right.

CALLAWAY: All right, Karen, thank you very much. She's with WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida.

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