U.S. 黒人／ボイコット Friday shopping 示すd by thinner （人が）群がるs, 抗議するs
By Nandita Bose and Nathan Layne
WEST HARTFORD, Conn./CHICAGO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - 商店街 （人が）群がるs were 比較して thin on 黒人／ボイコット Friday in a 調印する of what has become the new normal in U.S. holiday shopping: the mad 急ぐ is happening the night of Thanksgiving and more 消費者s are 選ぶing up 取引，協定s online.
Across the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, shoppers were 迎える／歓迎するd by 抗議する人s at hundreds of 蓄える／店s - some calling for higher 給料 at Wal-市場 蓄える／店s Inc, others 抗議するing the 決定／判定勝ち（する） of a 大陪審 not to 起訴する a white police officer in the August 狙撃 of an 18-year-old 非武装の 黒人／ボイコット man in Ferguson, Missouri.
Most major retailers now open Thursday evening and are 延長するing holiday 取引，協定s rather than 限界ing them to one day. The result is a quieter experience on a day that has 伝統的に kicked off the holiday shopping season, and often drawn 大混乱／混沌とした （人が）群がるs.
黒人／ボイコット Friday has 階級d as the busiest U.S. shopping day ーに関して／ーの点でs of sales and traffic since 2005, によれば ShopperTrak. But as 需要・要求する 転換s to Thursday and even earlier in the month, the 研究 会社／堅い 予報するs that "最高の Saturday" on Dec. 20 will be the most active day this year.
"It just looks like any other 週末," said Angela Olivera, a 32-year-old housewife shopping for children's 着せる／賦与するing at the Westfarms 商店街 近づく Hartford, Connecticut. "The 肉親，親類d of （人が）群がるs we usually see are 行方不明の and this is one of the biggest 商店街s here. I think people are just not spending a lot."
The （人が）群がるs 普通は reserved for 黒人／ボイコット Friday morning appeared on Thursday night. For instance, more than 15,000 people lined up for the 開始 of the 旗艦 蓄える／店 of Macy's Inc in New York on Thursday. Retailers also said they were 逮捕（する）ing more of the holiday 予算 online.
株 of Macy's, Wal-市場 and 的 Corp の近くにd from 2 to 3 パーセント higher on Friday as 投資家s were encouraged by the long lines on Thursday night and (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs made bullish comments about 需要・要求する. Lower ガソリン prices also helped 上げる the 株, 分析家s said.
"It's off to a good start," said Charlie O'Shea, a 小売 分析家 at Moody's 投資家s Service, about the shopping season after visiting nearly two dozen 蓄える／店s in northern New Jersey over the past two days.
In downtown Chicago, police 逮捕（する）d 11 people associated with 労働者s' 権利s group OUR Walmart for 封鎖するing traffic in 前線 of a Walmart 蓄える／店. The 抗議する was one of 1,600 planned across the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs by the group, which is 押し進めるing for higher 給料 and 利益s for the retailer's 従業員s.
"Wal-市場, Wal-市場 you're no good. 扱う／治療する your 労働者s like you should," a （人が）群がる of several dozen shouted outside the 蓄える／店.
Wal-市場 spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said: "The （人が）群がるs are mostly made up of paid union デモ参加者／実演宣伝者s, and they do not 代表する the 見解（をとる）s of the 1.3 million associates" who work for the company, the largest 私的な 雇用者 in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs.
Buchanan also said one of the デモ参加者／実演宣伝者s 攻撃する，衝突する a 顧客 at the Chicago 蓄える／店, 誘発するing a （民事の）告訴 to the police.
OUR Walmart 代表者／国会議員 Georges Tounou said the group carried out its 抗議する 平和的に.
全体にわたる 黒人／ボイコット F riday online sales as of 1500 EST (2000 GMT) were up 8 パーセント from a year earlier, によれば IBM 数字表示式の Analytics （判断の）基準. Online sales were up 14.3 パーセント on Thanksgiving Day.
Wal-市場 said Thursday was its second-highest online sales day ever after last year's Cyber Monday, which is the Monday after Thanksgiving, when online retailers 促進する 取引s.
的 CEO Brian Cornell said his company rang up a 記録，記録的な／記録する day of online sales on Thursday, and was seeing きびきびした 需要・要求する in its 蓄える／店s. He said the company was selling 1,800 televisions a minute between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Thursday night.
激しい traffic 原因（となる）d the Best Buy Co Inc website to 衝突，墜落 for a little over an hour earlier on Friday, but as of afternoon it was 支援する up and running, a company 広報担当者 said.
The 国家の 小売 連合 is 事業／計画（する）ing that sales for November and December will rise 4.1 パーセント to $616.9 billion, which would 示す the most bountiful holiday season in three years. Holiday sales grew 3.1 パーセント in 2013.
Some shoppers said the price of ガソリン - 推定する／予想するd to go even lower after the price of 天然のまま oil fell to a multiyear low - could make them more inclined to spend.
"My 予算 is pretty tight this year and gas is a tremendous expense because I have to 運動 my daughter around a lot," Kristen Akeley, 46, who 作品 at an elementary school, said while shopping for 着せる／賦与するs at a 的 in Connecticut.
"My gas expense has fallen from $150 a week to $80 a week and that is big 貯金 at this time of the year." (付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Beth Pinsker in Ventnor, New Jersey; Editing by Jilian Mincer, Paul Simao and Matthew 吊りくさび)
