A big tradition during the holiday season is Black Friday, a day when retailers try their hardest to get consumers to do the bulk of their shopping the day after Thanksgiving.

Some people plan out exactly what they want to get on Black Friday when sales are the best. It is common for people to camp outside of stores waiting for them to open. Others say the madness isn’t worth the savings.

“I never go to Black Friday. I let the bold and crazy have it,” said Renisha Converse, a senior biology major from Baton Rouge.

Some take Black Friday to extremes. Long lines of angry, excited and impatient customers await stores opening at unimaginably early hours of the morning. Sometimes the wildness of Black Friday is known to get out of hand.

Jerrica Steward, a senior kinesiology major from Hammond said, “My grandmother was hit in the head one time when people were running around to get toys.”

Although Black Friday is popular in retail stores, heavy shopping traffic is more common in larger stores like Walmart, Target and Best Buy.