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Clearly there was no shortage of shoppers, online or off. The third installment of the National Retail Federation's 2002 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted by BIGresearch for the NRF, indicates that 75.6 percent of consumers were out shopping on "Black Friday" weekend.

The term "Black Friday" was coined because traditionally, the day after Thanksgiving was the big sales day that retailers went from being in the red to being "in the black."

The NRF, which is predicting an overall 4 percent sales gain for the holiday season year over year, reported that, as expected, discount department stores (can you say Wal-Mart?) appear to be faring well. About 49 percent of consumers made this format a shopping destination. Consumers are