She's so ready, in fact, that she started camping out in a tent in front of the store on Wednesday, a full nine days before the deals will be offered, NBC affiliate Tampa Bay Online reports (h/t The Consumerist).
With an entourage of cousins and friends in tow, Ms. Williams, of Coney Island, made her way into her final store of the day.
Israel Diaz, who works for a glass company, was boarding up his second grocery store of the day at the corner of Slauson Avenue and Avalon Boulevard.
The planned opening of a store on Saturday has been postponed.
Tom Neumayr, a spokesman for Apple, confirmed that the company pulled the app out of the store on Tuesday.
Ms. Hill, 36, a mother of seven children ages 2 to 15, said she was in the back of the store on Wednesday morning when she heard bricks falling on the roof.
"You can get a parking spot in front of the hardware store on Saturday.
Pulse Wholefoods co-operative had its first meeting in store on Tuesday and one of its first projects is running a local veg box scheme.
Checks of three of the stores on Wednesday, including the Long Island City shop where the dead mouse was found, turned up nothing particularly unusual and no customers with horror stories.
The number of people going to stores on Friday ahead of the opening ceremony was 10.4% lower than a year ago, said research group Experian.
