My Honey and I have done the Black Friday thing for the last 3 or 4 years and I have to say I think the lines were shorter this year. I did notice that stores like JC Penney’s, Home Depot, and Costco seemed to have hired extra help this year,which was nice. My overall observation is that numbers will be down,we spent less than normal,like everyone else we just have everything we need and can’t justify buying more. We almost didn’t go this year but I’m glad we did. Here’s an interesting link on California employment http://www.sacbee.com/1232/rich_media/1698037.html