Black Friday shopping in Los Angeles County was underway Friday at Citadel Outlets in Commerce where many of its stores opened on Thanksgiving.

All but one of the stores that were open on Thanksgiving will remain open until 11 p.m. Friday, giving consumers at least 27 consecutive hours of shopping.

"It's been at least 10 years that we've been doing something of this nature on Thanksgiving," Ken Crow, general manager of Citadel Outlets, told City News Service Thursday.

"It's just fun to see people coming into the center as early as 10 o'clock this morning, making it a day."

Black Friday is considered the start of the Christmas shopping season, although Black Friday sales continue to begin earlier and earlier.

According to an annual survey released Nov. 20 by the National Retail Federat

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