Pamela Toups, right, shops with a friend at College Station in Carriage Crossing in Collierville, Tenn. Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2012. Retail industry analysts are predicting Dec. 22 will be the second-busiest shopping day of the year behind Black Friday.
A Walmart employee gathers pushcarts as police man the front of a Walmart store amid heightened Black Friday security in Paramount, California on November 23, 2012 as Walmart employees and their supoorters protested nearby. The US retail giant Walmart admitted on November 27 some of its products were made at the Bangladesh garment factory that burnt down at the weekend killing 110 workers, as anger grows over lax safety standards. The fire broke out at the ground-floor warehouse of the multi-storey Tazreen Fashions factory 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Dhaka on the night of November 24, trapping hundreds of workers on the upper upper floors, police said.
ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 24: U.S. President Barack Obama (C) and daughters Sasha Obama (2L) and Malia Obama (L) shop at One More Page Books on Small Business Saturday November 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. Obama urged Americans to participate in Small Business Saturday as an alternative to Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - NOVEMBER 23: Singer Cher Lloyd (shoe detail) poses backstage at the Black Friday Concert at 5 Towers Outdoor Concert Arena on November 23, 2012 in Universal City, California.
Police arrest a man during a protest for striking Walmart employees at a store on Black Friday in Paramount, California, November 23, 2012. Protesters demanding higher wages and better healthcare for Walmart hourly workers converged on the retailer's stores across the United States, though there was no evidence they disrupted operations for the start of the crucial holiday shopping season.
Police detain retired pastor William P. Miller, of The United Methodist Church, who is one of the nine people arrested after refusing to leave the street, during a protest for striking Walmart employees at a store on Black Friday in Paramount, California, November 23, 2012. Protesters demanding higher wages and better healthcare for Walmart hourly workers converged on the retailer's stores across the United States, though there was no evidence they disrupted operations for the start of the crucial holiday shopping season.
